INDIAN ZOO SAGA: VIEW PICTURES OF HOW STUDENT WAS KILLED

THE WHITE TIGER

A man with the tiger that later killed him at the New Delhi zoo. Witnesses said the man had fallen into the moat. CreditAgence France-Presse — Getty Images

Workers removed the body of a man who was mauled to death by a white tiger at the New Delhi zoo on Tuesday. CreditMoney Sharma/European Pressphoto Agency

The man, identified by the police as Maqsood Khan, 20, was spotted by other visitors, but the security personnel who came to the scene were not equipped with tranquilizer guns.

Amitabh Agnihotri, the director of the zoo, said that tranquilizer guns were stored at the zoo hospital, roughly 350 feet from the tiger’s cage. “We do have tranquilizer guns, but by the time we could organize them, he was dead,” he said.

Mr. Khan had stepped over a low outer fence to get closer to the tiger. Witnesses said they believed that he had slipped, but zoo officials said he had jumped into the moat, which is about 18 feet deep.