WOMAN MAULED TO DEATH BY TIGER AT A NEW ZEALAND ZOO

Samantha Lynda Kudeweh, 43, who had worked at the New Zealand zoo as a curator for more than 20 years was the victim of a tiger attack on Sunday evening.

The woman was attacked by Oz, one of the male Sumatran tigers, while she was cleaning the enclosure at Hamilton Zoo, south of Auckland, on the country's North Island.

Emergency services rushed to the zoo at 11am, but paramedics said the woman died at the scene.