In a bid to commit suicide, a 43 -year-old man tried to enter a tiger enclosure at Kamla Nehru Zoo in Madhya Pradesh's Indore city on Friday, and was saved by alert zoo staff.
Vijay Jhala climbed a 25-feet-high fence around the tiger enclosure, but was immediately brought down by alert zoo staffers before he could enter it, zoo in-charge Uttam Yadav said.
Two tigers and a tigress were present in the enclosure at the time, he said.
On interrogation, Jhala claimed that he was severely debt-ridden and wanted to kill himself, Yadav said.
He was later handed over to Sanyogitaganj police and further investigations are underway, a police official said.
Jhala seems mentally disturbed and may have been under the influence of drugs, he added.
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