Post Delhi incident, Kerala zoo to tighten safety measures

September 25, 2014 14:14

The century-old zoological park in Thiruvananthapuram has tightened safety and precautionary measures, days after a youth was mauled to death by a white tiger when he fell into its enclosure at the Delhi Zoo.

Additional metal sticks would be put in place in between the grills of the cages and steps would be taken to increase height of the walls of enclosures of big cats to prevent onlookers from falling inside, a top zoo official said.

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