A man died Saturday after entering the tiger enclosure at a wildlife park in northern England and was attacked by one of the animals, police said. Emergency medical staff were called to Yorkshire Wildlife Park near the town of Doncaster after the incident was reported at around 1.35pm, but the victim died at the scene, South Yorkshire Police said in a statement. The tiger was not injured and remained inside the enclosure during the incident, the force said. “He jumped and then crawled in front of the tiger, where it was perched, and just stayed there,” said witness Ella Ford. “We’ve seen the tiger get down and approach him and obviously grab him and then scream for help.” The wildlife park was evacuated after the attack and officers remained at the scene Saturday night as they investigated. “We are working closely with authorities to determine exactly what happened,” the wildlife park said in a statement posted on its website. Yorkshire Wildlife Park began operating in 2009, and its “Tiger Land” attraction opened in 2011. The attraction is a 2-acre reserve specially built for the endangered Amur tigers, also known as Siberian tigers. 300-meter elevated walkway allows visitors to watch the big cats roam through forests and grasslands or play in a waterfall pool, the park says on its website. Visitors to several zoos and wildlife parks throughout the. world have attempted to enter tiger enclosures. A woman was caught in 2024 jumping a fence and taunting a tiger at the Cohanzick Zoo in New Jersey. In 2016, a zookeeper was fatally attacked by a Malayan tiger at a Florida zoo when he entered the tiger’s night house enclosure, according to a coroner’s investigation. Several years earlier, in 2012, a man jumped from an area near the. monorail at the Bronx Zoo over two fences, including an electrified one, on one of them to enter the tiger enclosure, police said. He was seriously injured in what appeared to be a suicide attempt.
