Yorkshire park rules out euthanizing tiger after man's death
ITV News's follow-up reports the park's decision as the attraction remains closed after Saturday's fatal attack.
Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 119,016 views a day, 17 times a normal first day on this channel (6,941).
In a statement, Yorkshire Wildlife Park said the tiger will not be put to sleep.
A man died after climbing down from a walkway into a tiger enclosure at Yorkshire Wildlife Park near Doncaster on Saturday, ITV News reports. Emergency services were called to the South Yorkshire attraction that afternoon.
The park said in a statement on Sunday that the tiger would not be put to sleep. The attraction remains closed, making the decision about the animal the central development in ITV News's follow-up to the fatal attack.
The brief update reached about 78,000 views in its first 11 hours, already far beyond the roughly 7,000 a regular ITV News Short attracts over a full first day. Discussion beneath the report centers on the park's decision and the distinction between an animal escaping its enclosure and a person entering it.
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Where next?
- Channel
- ITV News
- Subscribers
- 2,250,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 10,521,524
- Channel views, pace per day
- 2,814,968 (on a normal day: 1,278,480)
- Video published
- October 11, 2026
- Video views so far
- 77,994 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 119,016
The numbers
The update drew an unusually large early audience for an ITV News Short. Its comment section was also much busier than a regular first day.



