A zookeeper has been killed in a "tragic incident" after being attacked by a tiger at a New Zealand zoo, police said Sunday, according to AFP.
The staff member, reported to be a woman, was working at Hamilton Zoo about 520 kilometres north of the capital Wellington on the country's North Island, on Sunday morning when she was attacked by the animal.
"Sadly the staff member who was attacked by the tiger has died at the scene," New Zealand police's Senior Sergeant Juliet Burgess of Waikato District Command Center said in a statement.