A fit of rage led to a vicious carnage when a live donkey was thrown into a tiger enclosure in a zoo in eastern China on Monday afternoon.
According to local media reports, the donkey died after it was repeatedly mauled by the tigers over a period of half an hour.
After a dispute evoked between investor and managers of Changzhou zoo, men led by investor hauled a live donkey out of the back of the truck and threw it to a pair of hungry tigers, as visitors watched in sheer horror.
Due to poor returns, the shareholder brought a group of men to take some of the zoo’s animals and sell them. When the men were stopped they reportedly tried to push the animals into the tiger enclosure instead.
They were stopped from taking zoo animals to sell. So they threw a live donkey into the tiger enclosure instead https://t.co/4e65bQIPKI pic.twitter.com/A5ZshxIeqO
— SCMP News (@SCMP_News) June 6, 2017
A graphic video has since gone viral in China showing men in raincoats forcing the donkey down a ramp from the back of a truck, before it falls into a moat around the enclosure.
The brutal footage shows the animal desperately trying to cling on before it lands in the water below, where two tigers wait for their prey.
According to the South China Morning Post, the men also tried to throw goat into the enclosure but were stopped by visitors and security staff.
The brutality of the video has sparked outrage on the Internet.
the shareholders who committed a disgusting act at China's changzhou zoo should have the same done to them 🐴?? rip
— 👽 brendan 🎤 (@onlyheathhere) June 7, 2017
I'm disgusted at the story I just read on people feeding a live donkey to tigers in Changzhou zoo infront of families/kids #cruelty
— Sinead Hilliard (@HilliardSinead) June 7, 2017