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Indian white tiger kills student at Delhi zoo | |
(35 minutes later) | |
A white tiger has attacked and killed an Indian student at Delhi zoo, officials and witnesses say. | |
Zoo manager Riaz Khan said the young man "leapt over the railing into the tiger enclosure". Initial reports described him as a schoolboy. | |
Television pictures showed the student crouching against a wall while the tiger stood near him. | |
An eyewitness said he was leaning over the barricade which was "very low" and may have fallen inside the enclosure. | |
"Around 1.30 pm, we were in the reptiles area when we heard loud screams," eyewitness Himanshu told CNN-IBN news channel. | |
"I ran to the tiger enclosure where we saw that a white tiger had caught the student by his neck and he was writhing in pain. Some children threw small sticks and stones at the tiger. | |
"He suffered for the next 10-15 minutes but nobody helped him." | |
Himanshu said the police "came very quickly", but could not save him. | |
White tigers are a rare variant of the customary orange Bengal sub-species. | |
Considered an endangered species, they are found in south and east Asia, particularly India, and owe their colour to a recessive gene. |