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A zoo cleaner took a page out of the Roy Horn of Siegfried and Roy fame handbook.

According to eyewitnesses, Mr Nordin, who was seen shouting and flinging items about shortly before the incident, vaulted a low wall and landed in a moat in the enclosure, four meters below.

Carrying a yellow pail and a broom, he then crossed the 1.75m-deep moat, walked up to a rocky ledge near where the animals were and began agitating them by swinging the broom.

As two of the tigers approached him, he covered his head with the pail, lay down on the ground, and curled himself into a foetal position.

It all sounds fairly horrific-

He said many in the crowd of 30 or so onlookers at the enclosure initially thought the intrusion was part of a show.  But when Mr Nordin began screaming, they reacted with horror.

‘Some were screaming: ‘Go away’ to the tigers and others were shouting to scare the tigers,’ he said.