The boy and his three-year-old brother were lifted over the security barrier at the tiger’s enclosure by their father so they could touch the animals and shockingly the tiger bit off the poor child's hand.
The stricken boy is lifted over the barriers after the attack The Mail Online quotes witness Ricardo Espindola as saying: “He was giving the tiger pieces of food, meat and stroking it.
“I finished looking at the animals, left, then heard screams.” The boy remains in intensive care. Zoo director Lauri Dallagnol told Globo the reporters that a guard who is usually present at the enclosure was doing rounds elsewhere in the zoo when the accident occurred.
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