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10yo mauled to death by tiger From correspondents in Millers Creek, North Carolina A WOMAN'S 180kg Bengal tiger fatally mauled her 10-year-old nephew after pulling him under a fence and into his cage, authorities said. The boy, Clayton James Eller, was shovelling snow yesterday near the tiger's cage, an enclosure made of chain link fence that had an opening at the bottom so the family's dog could go in and play, officials said. "This little boy got too close, and it pulled him under the fence," Coroner Howard Laney said. The boy's uncle, James Marshall Eller, heard Clayton scream and saw the tiger dragging the boy into its cage. Sheriff Dane Mastin said Eller tried in vain to get the tiger off the boy, then ran and got his gun and shot the tiger dead. But it was too late to save the boy. The boy's mother, Angela Eller, had left the boy in the care of her sister Ruth Bynum, the tiger's owner, while she went to work, Mastin said. James Eller is the brother of the two women. Mastin said he wasn't aware of any previous complaints about the tiger. The Associated Press |
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