Rampaging tiger mauls fisherman in bloody attack days after beast ate victim alive

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wild tiger jumped through a window of a house before mauling a 19-year-old fisherman in eastern Russia.The emaciated predator smashed through the glass as it pounced, seriously injuring the man.

His cousin reached for a gun and shot the Siberian tiger, the world's largest cat, dead.READ MORE: Military jets scrambled as mystery balloons spotted above two European countriesAngler Sergey Kyalundzyuga was in the house on a fishing trip with two others when the tigers suddenly smashed through the window.A source said: “They heard a noise outside.

Sergey went to the window, and then a male tiger flew into it, breaking the glass with his head.”Sergey received injuries to the head, neck and arm before his cousin Alexander shot the beast at around 10:30pm.The cousin also suffered less serious injuries while another man with them fled.Rescuers took two days to reach the remote spot, before taking the wounded men to hospital in Troitsk.A video shows the dead tiger in the house and a rescuer saying: “It saw movement [of the curtain] and immediately pounced to attack the window.“And in a split second he was inside.

One second.” Sergey remains in intensive care after surgery and “lost a lot of blood, was dehydrated and in traumatic shock,” reported one source.