Tiger attacks, kills bus driver in China

HAILIN CITY, China, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- A captive-bred Siberian tiger attacked and killed a man at a breeding center for the big cats in northeast China's Heilongjiang province, officials said.

A spokesman for the center said the tiger attacked Jin Shijun, a tour bus driver at the China Hengdaohezi Feline Breeding Center in Hailin City, as he got out of the bus to check it after it became bogged down in snow, China's state-run news agency Xinhua reported.

The tiger attacked Jin and then dragged him into the forest, where center workers later found his body.

The breeding center, built in 1986, is home to about 1,000 Siberian tigers and is the world's largest Siberian tiger breeding base, Xinhua said.