Terrifying pictures emerged not too long ago of a zookeeper being fatally mauled by lions whereas making an attempt to movie himself to “impress his girlfriend”.

Named as F Iriskulov, 44, he was ambushed by three escaped lions within the Lion Park in Parkent, Uzbekistan as he tried to herd them again.

His digital camera recorded the horrifying ordeal; his screams echoing till the tragic finish. He didn’t survive the assault, main to 2 lions being tranquilized and a 3rd lethally shot.

However, chillingly, it is not the primary time animals have been caught on digital camera consuming people alive. We check out comparable heart-wrenching fatalities involving animals caught on tape.

‘Obsessive about tigers’

One appalling episode included Maqsood Khan, a 22-year-old with a reported “obsession for tigers”.

In 2014, he scaled into the tiger enclosure at New Delhi Zoo, the place he encountered Vijay, a seven-year-old white tiger. Onlookers filmed the ordeal, which ended tragically regardless of their efforts to discourage the tiger, leading to Maqsood’s demise after the animal grasped him by the neck and withdrew to its lair.

A bystander described the chilling second they responded to cries for assist solely to witness Maqsood beneath the tiger’s deadly clutch.

It took authorities two hours and vital effort to coax the tiger right into a smaller cage inside the enclosure, after which they have been capable of retrieve Maqsood’s mutilated stays. The federal government later positioned the accountability on Maqsood, citing that he had ignored warnings and wound up in a zoo enclosure with a tiger as a result of his “misadventure” born from his “obsession for tigers”.

Safari horror 

In a separate horrifying occasion at a safari park, a Chinese language girl was devoured alive by a tiger whereas her household watched on in horror. The tragedy in 2016 occurred after she left her car on the safari park to rescue her daughter.

Mrs Zhao bravely confronted the Siberian tiger at Badaling Wildlife Park in Beijing when it clamped its jaws on her daughter, Mei, and proceeded to tug her into the undergrowth. Regardless of Mrs Zhao’s brave efforts, she was brutally killed by one other beast.

Mei herself sustained life-altering accidents in the course of the assault and confronted criticism for breaking park guidelines by leaving the automobile, placing each herself and her family members at risk. The horrifying episode, which was captured on CCTV, started with Mei stepping out of the car amid a household argument, solely to be seized by a lurking tiger that dragged her off swiftly.

Quickly after, her husband and mom dashed out to assist, as park employees raced to the scene in a car. However it was too late for Mrs Zhao who fell sufferer to a second tiger.

The wildlife park was quickly closed for an investigation, however it will definitely reopened as no fault was discovered with its operations, even after the household pursued authorized motion in opposition to the institution.

Harrowing audio 

In a separate incident not involving a zoo, a pair’s terrifying closing moments with a bear have been captured on audio.

Timothy Treadwell and his girlfriend Amie Huguenard have been tragically killed by a bear whereas tenting within the Alaskan forest.

Timothy, who styled himself as ‘Grizzle Man’, unknowingly recorded their final moments on his video digital camera after spending 13 summers tenting with wild brown bears in Alaska.

The incident occurred in October 2003, with Timothy heard screaming: “Get out right here! I am getting killed out right here! ” Amie suggested him to “play lifeless” as she left her tent to help him. Regardless of momentarily releasing Tim, the bear dragged him away earlier than he yelled at his girlfriend to “hit the bear”.

She did so with a frying pan, and her blood-curdling screams are the final sounds heard earlier than the recording ends. The silent beast consumed each people, with Timothy’s mutilated head later found close by.

The bear was subsequently shot lifeless, and 4 rubbish baggage stuffed with human stays have been present in its abdomen.