By John Elizondo
NEW YORK - New York City police say a man was mauled by a tiger at the Bronx Zoo when he leaped from an elevated monorail train and fell into the tiger exhibit. Where we've learned a man has lost his leg after climbing into a tiger exhibit at the Bronx Zoo.
The mauling happened Friday afternoon in the Wild Asia exhibit, where a train takes visitors past elephants and deer and over a tiger enclosure. The man cleared a perimeter fence in order to land in the exhibit.
The 25-year-old man was then mauled by the tiger. Zoo employees then used a fire extinguisher to back the tiger off. The man then rolled under a wire to safety, but lost a leg in the attack.
The victim has been hospitalized and is in critical condition.
