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Tiger mauls handler at Australian amusement park

A visitor observes a tiger at Dreamworld on the Gold Coast of Australia on Sept. 16, 2020. (Quinn Rooney / Getty Images via CNN Newsource)
A visitor observes a tiger at Dreamworld on the Gold Coast of Australia on Sept. 16, 2020. (Quinn Rooney / Getty Images via CNN Newsource)
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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA -

A tiger mauled its handler at a popular amusement park on the Gold Coast in Australia, leaving the experienced worker hospitalized with 鈥渟erious lacerations and puncture wounds鈥 to her arm.

The unnamed handler, 47, was working with one of Dreamworld鈥檚 nine tigers when, according to the Queensland Ambulance Service, she was attacked shortly before 9 a.m. Monday local time.

Park staff were able to restrain the tiger before paramedics arrived.

鈥淭he patient obviously had received some serious lacerations and puncture wounds from the animal,鈥 Queensland Ambulance Service acting district director Justin Payne told reporters.

鈥淭hankfully on their arrival the bleeding had been managed very well by first aid providers there at Dreamworld, which was excellent to see,鈥 Payne said.

The handler 鈥渨as quite pale and feeling unwell,鈥 but is now in a stable condition at Gold Coast University Hospital, he added.

In a statement, Dreamworld said Monday鈥檚 attack was an 鈥渋solated and rare incident鈥 and the business鈥檚 鈥渋mmediate focus is on the support of the team member.鈥

Dreamworld declined to answer further questions on the welfare of the tiger.

The park remained open to the public on Monday.

Dreamworld鈥檚 Tiger Island exhibit is billed as an 鈥渋nteractive鈥 experience where visitors 鈥渃an get so close you could feel the breath of a tiger.鈥

The park鈥檚 website advertises the opportunity for visitors to feed some of its nine Bengal and Sumatran tigers.

Monday鈥檚 attack in not the first time a tiger has injured staff at Dreamworld. In 2011, a 160-kilogram Bengal tiger named Keto bit two handlers in two separate incidents, according to local media reports at the time.

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