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Tiger victim not IDed yet

2005-12-19 22:27

Debbie Sauer

Bloemfontein - The identity of a man who was killed in the tiger enclosure in the Bloemfontein zoo remained a mystery on Monday.

Captain Elsa Gerber said police had received three inquiries, but the body had still not been identified.

A post-mortem would probably be done on Wednesday.

Gerber said staff at the mortuary were very busy following the weekend's bus accident at nearby Wepener, in which 21 people were killed.

A Port Elizabeth man who read Monday's report on the internet phoned to find out whether the man was his brother, who was in his early thirties and in the SANDF in Bloemfontein.

The brother was expected at his parents' home in Port Elizabeth on Thursday for the Christmas holidays.

His family cannot reach him on his cellphone, and he was last seen at work on Thursday, the day he should have left.

The brother said the family were not able to travel to Bloemfontein yet to identify the body.

The man's naked body was found in the tiger enclosure on Sunday morning.

It had bite marks to the neck.

A visitor who saw it in a ditch in the enclosure called for help.

The man's shoes and torn clothing were found in the enclosure.

It was not clear how the man ended up in the enclosure.

Staff said he must have fallen about 10m into the enclosure.

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