A 19-year-old man has died after being attacked by a tigress that was let out of its cage so a TikTok video could be filmed at a private animal breeding facility in Pakistan’s Lahore district.
The man was working at the facility, in the Kahna area, when the attack happened, Hiru News reported, citing the Times of India. He was taken to a private hospital with serious injuries and died while receiving treatment.
The arrests
Police investigating the death have arrested two people: the owner of the premises, named in the filing as Fayyaz, and a TikTok content creator named as Noman.
According to investigators, the content creator had come to the site to film a video and asked for the tigress to be released from its cage. The animal then got out of control and attacked the young man working there.
Sourcing and what this desk has not confirmed
This report rests on a single verified source. Hiru News carried the account in Sinhala on Friday evening, attributing it to the Times of India, which is not among the newsrooms this desk treats as verified. A check of the Daily Mirror, NewsFirst and EconomyNext rails found no Sri Lankan filing of it, and no verified international newsroom’s own report of the incident was reachable at the time of writing.
Wire and aggregator coverage circulating online carries additional details — a name for the victim, a fuller name for the content creator, a date of death earlier in the week, and claims about the facility’s licensing and an attempted cover-up. None of that has been confirmed against a verified newsroom, and it is deliberately not reproduced here. The transliterated names above are as Hiru rendered them from the Sinhala and may differ from other spellings.
This desk also declined to publish the photograph distributed with the filing, which appears to be a frame from video of a person on the ground beside a tiger.
Not reported
The filing does not name the victim, give the date of the attack or of the death, identify the hospital, or say whether the facility was licensed to keep big cats. It does not say what charges the two men face, whether the video was published, or what has become of the animal. There is no comment from Pakistani wildlife authorities or from TikTok.
