Text of report in English by Japan's largest news agency
Kyodo
Singapore, Nov. 13 Kyodo - A man was mauled to death by tigers
at the Singapore zoo Thursday in front of terrified visitors.
A spokeswoman for the Singapore Zoo told Kyodo News that Nordin
Montong, a Malaysian national working at the zoo, apparently jumped
into the moat surrounding the tiger enclosure around noon and was
pounced on by three Bengal white tigers.
The Straits Times newspaper said terrified zoo
visitors watched the vicious attack in horror and screamed.
It said the man was working at the zoo as a cleaner and it is
believed he was not supposed to be in the tiger enclosure as he was
assigned to clean the chimpanzee section.
He was reportedly seen behaving in an agitated manner before he
fell into the moat, it said.
Source: Kyodo News Service, Tokyo, in English 0748 gmt 13 Nov
08
