A Chinese zoo handler has been mauled to death by a 'domesticated' tiger he raised since it was just a cub.
The zookeeper, identified only as Mr Wu, was with the tiger inside a big metal former circus performance cage used for training and exercise on Sunday, the Daily Mail reported.
Suddenly the "usually quite docile" big cat "bit onto and suffocated him to death", officials in Fuzhou City in China's eastern Fujian Province said.
Mr Wu, who worked for the Fuzhou Zoo, raised the tiger since it was a cub, and it had been domesticated through long-term interaction with humans.
Horrific footage taken by witnesses shows the tiger, whose subspecies has not been confirmed, standing over the lifeless trainer's body inside the cage, with someone yelling: "Call the police!"