Standing in
shock as medics work to stem the bleeding, these shocking pictures show
the moments after a boy had his arm ripped off by a bear he had tried
to pat.
The disturbing images show paramedics applying bandages to the nine-year-old child's shoulder after his arm was torn off.
His severed limb can still be seen laying on the floor in the bear's enclosure, just minutes after the savage attack.
Medics work to treat the boy, 9, after his arm was ripped off by a bear in a zoo in Pingdingshan, China
The boy stands in shock, not even crying, as blood streams down his shirt before medical assistance arrives
The child's severed limb was left in the bear's enclosure for 20 minutes after it was torn off by the animal
The
nine-year-old stands in complete shock with bone protruding from where
his arm had previously been as blood streams down his shirt.
For
a brief moment he stands completely alone, not even crying, as tourists
stare at the mauled boy, waiting for medical staff to arrive.
The
grim pictures of the Chinese boy and the shattered remains of his arm
were widely shared online after the horrifying incident.
He was at Hebin Park Zoo, in Pingdingshan city in central China's Henan province, with his grandfather as a treat.
When
his grandfather went to buy sweets, the child clambered over a safety
rail to get nearer to the animal and reached in to stroke it.
At this point the bear put his head through the bars and grabbed the boy by his arm.
The child screamed as the bear grappled with his arm for 10 minutes before tearing it free, witnesses said.
People were seen trying to beat off the bear but their attempts were in vain.
Zoo staff could do nothing as the bear mauled the boy, and took a further 20 minutes to retrieve his severed right arm.
Witnesses said the bear grappled with
the boy for 10 minutes before ripping his arm off, leaving the boy with
bone protruding from his shoulder
The boy had been taken to the zoo as a treat from his grandfather, who left him briefly to buy sweets
People were seen trying to beat off the bear as it savagely attacked the child but their attempts were in vain
The boy's parents have slammed the zoo, saying staff should have been supervising the bear.
His
mother, Ku, said she could not believe it when she arrived at
Pingdingshan Number 152 Hospital to be told that surgeons would have to
amputate what was left of her son's arm.
She said: 'I don't know how we will ever get over this. Our entire family has been ruined because of this zoo.
'They should have made it safer and they should have always had staff on duty to supervise the animals.'
The zoo has not commented.
Bear
attacks are rare although according to the Journal of Emergency
Medicine, there were 162 bear-inflicted injuries in the USA between 1900
and 1985, International Business Times reports.
Jeffrey
Tittel, director of environmental organisation New Jersey Sierra Club,
claims that bears are usually docile and afraid of people.
Attacks
often relate to people having food, as bears that have been fed by
humans see people as a source of food and can become aggressive.
The child's mother, Ku (pictured crying), has blamed the zoo's staff for not supervising the animal at all times
The boy's father cries in a corridor at the hospital, where what was left of his son's arm was amputated
Bear attacks are rare, with the docile animals usually afraid of approaching people, animal experts say
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