HORRIFIC SCENES AT ZOO AS KEEPER KILLED BY TIGER

A ZOOKEEPER was killed by a tiger yesterday as visitors heard a “bloodcurdling” scream from the enclosure.

Rosa King’s colleagues desperately tried to save her by distracting the big cat with chunks of meat, witnesses said.

More than 100 visitors were evacuated from Hamerton Zoo in Cambridgeshire, England, as “all hell broke loose” and police and paramedics rushed to the scene.

Witness Pete Davis said he believed the keeper was attacked after rushing to help a colleague in the tiger enclosure. He said: “There’s no doubting it was a girl’s scream and something terrible had happened. It sounds like a tiger turned on her.

“She had run into the enclosure after hearing one of her colleagues shouting and moments later all hell let loose. She let out a bloodcurdling scream and then another keeper ran out and shouted ‘run’. It was a case of total panic.”

Carnivore keeper Ms King, 33, looked after the zoo’s four tigers.

Picture: FACEBOOK Rosa King, 33, was mauled to death by a tiger that got into an enclosure where she was working at Hamerton Zoo in Cambridgeshire, England.