An eight-year-old girl was mauled to death by a tiger at the Leheledu Amusement Park in the southwestern city of Chongqing, Xinhua after getting into the animals cage while her family didn't notice, according to the Daily Mail.
Juan Niu walked up to the cage and managed to get through the bars and into the cage, the Daily Mail reported. She was pounced on by a tiger, and mauled in front of shocked park visitors on Oct. 31.
Animal trainers were soon at the scene and managed to get the girl away from the tiger, but she was in a critical condition when she was taken to hospital and declared dead on arrival, AFP reported.
The amusement park has offered to give the family compensation as well as pledging to improve security so the public are kept safe from the wild animals, according to AFP.
Park managers had hired a travelling circus as one of the acts to entertain visitors and had set up temporary holding pens for the animals, state media reported, AFP reported.
Park spokesman Manchu Hung said: "Nothing terrible like this has ever happened before and we take the safety of our visitors very seriously, according to the Daily Mail. "We will pay all compensation necessary to the family and will make sure it's not possible for anything similar to ever happen again," he said.
Even though tiger attacks are rare, many zookeepers in the Chinese provinces of Anhui, Shanghai, and Shenzhen, were attacked and killed in 2010, the Daily Mail reported.
