Killing the foreign tiger was "closed"
Core tip: "I really don’t know that climbing over the guardrail is the tiger garden." Yesterday afternoon, Xiao Xu recalled the scene when the three brothers crossed the fence and mistakenly broke into the tiger garden, shaking their heads again and again. On the afternoon of the day before yesterday, the three men went to visit the Badaling Great Wall. When they went down the mountain, they took a shortcut and strayed into the Northeast Tiger Park in Badaling Wildlife World. Xiao Xu’s 18-year-old cousin Guo was killed by a Northeast Tiger.
Three youths from Hebei cut into Badaling Tiger Park by mistake, one died and two were rescued.
Yesterday afternoon, the Northeast Tiger Area of Badaling Wildlife Park was closed to the outside world and was guarded by work vehicles. Our reporter Wang Jianing photo
(Reporter Gan Hao) "I really don’t know that climbing over the guardrail is a tiger garden." Yesterday afternoon, Xiao Xu recalled the scene when the three brothers crossed the fence and mistakenly broke into the tiger garden, shaking their heads again and again. On the afternoon of the day before yesterday, the three men went to visit the Badaling Great Wall. When they went down the mountain, they took a shortcut and strayed into the Northeast Tiger Park in Badaling Wildlife World. Xiao Xu’s 18-year-old cousin Guo was killed by a Northeast Tiger. Yesterday afternoon, the Northeast Tiger Park in Badaling Wildlife World was temporarily closed.
Unfortunately, the young man is under 18 years old.
Xiao Xu introduced that all three of them are from Xingtai, Hebei Province, and the other two are his brothers and cousins. They came to work in Beijing more than half a month ago, and their cousin Guo is not yet 18 years old. At noon the day before yesterday, the three of them went to visit the Badaling Great Wall.
At about four o’clock in the afternoon, the three men arrived at the highest crib of the Great Wall and prepared to go down the mountain. "After going back for more than three hours, I want to take a shortcut down the mountain." Xiao Xu said that it was getting late. At this moment, the three people just saw a short cut down the hill and buses passing by, so they decided to take this short cut.
"When I approached, I found that I was stopped by the iron net." Xiao Xu said that after crossing the three iron nets, "we wanted to go out along the path ahead, but we didn’t expect to see a big tiger when we walked 100 meters." Xiao Xu said that the tiger came out of the roadside Woods and kept staring at them, less than 10 meters away.
The young man was not breathing when he was rescued.
"I am completely embarrassed." Xiao Xu said that they immediately turned and fled, and the cousin fell at the end. He was thrown to the ground by the tiger without running a few steps. Xiao Xu and his brother ran a hundred meters away and turned over an iron gate more than three meters high. They couldn’t see their cousin because of the trees. A few minutes later, the staff drove a jeep to save the two.
Liu Yisen, deputy general manager of Wildlife World, said that when the incident occurred, the inspectors were driving by. "Seeing that the tiger is biting a man’s throat, the man has no response." Liu Yisen said that the staff immediately drove up to the biting tiger, forcing the tiger to let go and run away. Subsequently, the staff drove the tiger back to the pool and got off the bus and found that the bitten man had no breathing. After arriving at 120, the man was confirmed dead.
Yesterday afternoon, the Northeast Tiger Park in Badaling Wildlife World was temporarily closed. Other tiger parks such as Bengal tiger and animal parks such as bears and lions are open normally.
■ follow-up visit
Biting Siberian tigers are locked up.
Yesterday afternoon, the Northeast Tiger Park in Badaling Wildlife Park was temporarily closed, and neither tour buses nor self-driving cars were allowed to enter. "The biting tiger has been kept in solitary confinement." Liu Yisen, deputy general manager of Wildlife World, said that this is an adult Siberian tiger with a strong physique.
Another person in charge said that after the zoo is closed, all wild animals such as bears, tigers and lions will be driven back to the house due to feeding and safety problems. Considering saving resources, the inner power grid will be cut off and powered on the next day before the beast is released. The person in charge also said that the wild animals in the park are stocked, and in order to make the living conditions of the wild animals close to nature, live food feeding is carried out at intervals.
■ doubt
Three lines of defense failed to stop the intruder.
According to Liu Yisen, the Northeast Tiger Park is located on the west side of the entire wildlife park, and there is a section of the Badaling Great Wall winding northward nearby. There are Woods between the Great Wall and the zoo, and the staff call it a "no man’s land".
Liu Yisen said that in order to prevent animals from escaping and outsiders from entering, there are three fences in Badaling Wildlife World, and there are obvious warning signs hanging outside the guardrail: "Do not approach if there are wild animals inside". The outermost layer is a 2-meter-high steel guardrail, and the middle layer is a 3.6-meter-high wire fence, both of which are uncharged. The innermost layer is a 1-meter-high power grid, close to the protective net in the middle, and its instantaneous voltage can reach more than 7000 volts, mainly to prevent animals from leaving the park. At the beginning of March, the garden also inspected warning signs and protective nets, and found no problems.
Xiao Xu said that the three men only saw a wooden sign with a white background and a rusty iron sign on the outermost steel guardrail, which was not marked. At that time, they thought these three iron nets were to protect the Great Wall, so they crossed it. When they reached the third protective net, they found that the net was charged and went through one of the gaps.
Liu Yisen said that when the staff asked the two survivors that day, they said that they saw the warning signs, but they did not believe that there were really wild animals in the park. In the meantime, the staff also smelled alcohol on the two. In this regard, two survivors said that they had never drunk.
Our reporter Gan Hao
■ aftermath
Family members entered the scene and did not see the wounded tiger.
The person in charge of the park said that there were three guardrails in the animal park and obvious warning signs were hung, which was very unexpected.
After the incident the day before yesterday, Xiao Xu and his brother were temporarily placed in a hotel in Yanqing by the zoo. At 5 o’clock in the morning yesterday, the families of the deceased also rushed to Yanqing.
Yesterday morning, Xiao Xu and his uncle and other family members came to Badaling Wildlife Park and asked to go to the scene of the incident for identification. Under the arrangement of the garden, family members and others entered the Northeast Tiger Park, but no tigers were seen.
Yesterday, the two sides made a preliminary contact on compensation. At present, the two sides have not reached an agreement on the issue of liability. Because no agreement was reached on the determination of liability, the two sides failed to continue negotiations on the amount of compensation. The person in charge of the garden said that Xu ignored the warning and crossed the guardrail into the garden. "I should bear the corresponding responsibility."
Editor: Li Xiuwei