Kolmarden Wildlife Park in Sweden is a
popular tourist attraction with up to half a million visitors a year. On
Sunday it became the centre of a horror scene as a pack of eight wolves
launched a ferocious attack on their 30-year-old keeper, mauling her to
death.
The attack happened around 11 a.m.
Sunday morning at Sweden's largest zoo when the 30-year-old keeper
entered the wolves' pen to treat the animals she had helped to rear when
they were cubs. For some reason the animals launched a ferocious attack
on her as she was treating them, alone in the enclosure with nobody
around.
The alarm was given when she had failed
to make radio contact with the authorities. Colleagues went to the scene
but could not enter the enclosure due to the ferocity of the animals
and the emergency services were called.
All they could do was to look on
helplessly as the woman, still alive, was trying to fend off the
ferocious animals tearing her apart in front of their eyes. The wolf
enclosure was particularly attractive to visitors because they were
allowed to go inside to pet the wolves.
There were no witnesses to the attack.
The keeper had been working for three years at the zoo and had helped
raise the wolves when they were cubs - staff often entered the enclosure
alone.
Experts state that such attacks are
extremely rare among wolves in zoos. It has not yet been decided whether
the wolves will be destroyed.
Timofei Belov
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