Shocked visitors see live donkey fed to tigers at Chinese zoo
Shareholder in dispute with zoo stopped from taking animals to sell, and tries to have them thrown to tigers instead
Visitors at a zoo in eastern China got the shock of their lives on Monday when a group of men suddenly appeared and threw a live donkey into the tiger enclosure, the Modern Express newspaper reported.
The donkey died after about half an hour of being mauled by the tigers at the zoo in Changzhou, Jiangsu province.
A video of incident that appeared online prompted a stream of angry comments on social media.
A witness told the paper that the men, wearing red raincoats, drove up to the enclosure with a truck, pushed the donkey in and then tried to throw a goat in too, but were stopped by visitors and security staff.
A zoo official told the paper that a shareholder involved in a dispute with the zoo was behind the incident.