“The man who died in the tiger attack jumped into the cage after dancing and pacing.”

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Hyun Young-bok = An eyewitness account has emerged that a man who died after being attacked by a Siberian tiger at a wildlife park in England was wandering around the cage with headphones on before the accident and then ran into the cage.

According to the British daily The Times on the 11th (local time), witnesses to the incident reported that a tall man in his early 20s wandered around the Yorkshire Wildlife Park in England on the afternoon of the 10th, asking to take a picture with a tiger in the background, then climbed over the fence and jumped into the tiger's enclosure.

In a video spread online, a man who lost his life in a tiger attack can be heard shouting, "Stop, no."

Park employees who were aware of the situation at the time of the accident attempted to make the tiger retreat by shooting a sound weapon, but the incident ended within minutes. When the emergency rescue team arrived at the scene, the man had already died after being bitten on the neck and chest by the tiger.

Ella Ford (24), who visited the park with her boyfriend, testified, "The man wearing headphones wandered around (around the tiger's cage), climbed up the fence, jumped into the cage, and then crawled in front of the tiger."

Anthony Hunt (22) first saw the dead man while parking at the zoo with his group.

He said that while parking, he saw the man wearing headphones, dancing and walking quickly and thought he was a person with special desires. “This man pushed another female visitor who tried to stop him, stood on the fence of the tiger enclosure, and jumped into the enclosure.”

Hunt vividly described the situation at the time, saying, "It looked like a performance. The man who had suffered the accident sat in the viewing area where everyone could see, crawled on all fours, prayed, and bowed to the tiger. It was as if he was waiting for the tiger."

Another visitor, Marie Miller, said that the man who suffered the accident was clearly alone and that she saw him asking a first-time visitor to take a picture with the tiger in the background.

Yorkshire Animal Park did not open its zoo on the 11th, the day after the accident.

The zoo expressed deep condolences to the family of the man involved in the accident, but announced that it would not euthanize the tiger involved in the accident.

Local police informed the victim's family of the accident and announced that the family was receiving support.

Yorkshire Wildlife Park, which opened in 2009, covers 260 acres (about 318,000 pyeong). The Siberian tigers in this park live in enclosures spanning 2 acres (about 2,400 pyeong).