A educated tiger handler has been hospitalised with accidents to her arm after being attacked by one of many animals at an Australian theme park.
Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) says the girl, who’s in her 40s, is in a secure situation after sustaining cuts and scratches whereas working at Dreamworld in Queensland’s Gold Coast.
“This was an remoted and uncommon incident, and we’ll conduct an intensive overview accordingly,” the corporate mentioned in a press release.
The favored theme park – which is visited by virtually two million folks yearly – is house to 9 Sumatran and Bengal tigers.
QAS mentioned medics have been referred to as to the scene at 09:01 native time on Monday (23:01 GMT on Sunday) “following an incident with a tiger” and that the girl was instantly taken to the Gold Coast College Hospital, the place she stays.
“She was fairly pale and feeling unwell, however on the whole properly and was capable of be transported,” QAS appearing district director Justin Payne informed ABC Information.
“She is among the skilled and senior handlers there at Dreamworld… it is good to see that she was capable of be sorted by different help workers there,” he added.
Dreamworld’s Tiger Island attraction is one in every of solely a handful of interactive tiger reveals on this planet, based on the theme park.
It opened virtually three a long time in the past and hosts two reveals a day by which onlookers are invited to observe the animals “glide underwater” in a splash pool, and eat their each day meals throughout feeding time.
In line with native media studies, there have been a string of incidents within the enclosure over time – together with when a then-nine-year-old male Bengal tiger, Kato, bit two handlers again in 2011.
A Dreamworld spokesperson mentioned that the corporate’s focus now was to offer the worker concerned in Monday’s assault with fast help.
