A mum was mauled to death by a tiger trying to save her daughter who had left her car in a safari park in China.
The woman’s daughter was filmed on CCTV leaving her car and walking around in the Siberian tiger enclosure at Badaling Wildlife World.
Moments later as she opens the rear car door a tiger pounces and attacks her, dragging her off the road.
A man leaps out of the car followed by the woman’s mother as they attempted to save her from the tiger, according to a statement from Yanqing County government.
Local Government officials say the woman’s mother was killed by a second tiger as she tried to rescue her daughter, which was not caught on CCTV.
Reports say the mother was killed on the spot and her daughter was left with serious injuries from the attack and remains in hospital
It is not clear why the woman exited her vehicle in the tiger enclosure in the first place, although the Beijing-based Legal Evening News claims it was because of an argument with a family member.
Signs at Badaling Wildlife Park warn visitors not to leave their vehicles.
The New York Times says this is not the first fatality to happen at the drive-through animal park which is near a famous section of the Great Wall in North Beijing.
A park employee was killed by an elephant in March and a security guard was also killed by a tiger after stepping out of a patrol vehicle in the park.
An 18-year-old was also reportedly killed by a tiger back in 2009 after climbing a fence to get into the animal enclosure. The state-run Xinhua said the men had been trying to take a shortcut through the park to reach the Great Wall when the tiger attacked.
