Witness accounts follow Yorkshire Wildlife Park evacuation
Manchester Evening News' report on the fatal tiger attack drew about 65,000 views in its first 17 hours.
Manchester Evening News
Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 76,854 views a day, 13 times a normal first day on this channel (5,952).
Yorkshire Wildlife Park EVACUATED as witnesses recall HORRIFIC moment man MAULED by tiger
Police confirmed the death. A man who entered a tiger enclosure at Yorkshire Wildlife Park near Doncaster on Saturday was pronounced dead at the scene, South Yorkshire Police said. His family has been informed.
Manchester Evening News' Short focuses on witnesses speaking after the attack, with its title also reporting that the park was evacuated. Emergency services were contacted shortly after the man entered the enclosure. The outlet's description says videos circulating online appear to show the encounter with a tiger named Altai.
The report reached about 65,000 views in its first 17 hours, already well beyond the roughly 6,000 a typical Short on the channel receives across a full first day. For Manchester Evening News, the witness-focused report is an unusually widely watched upload.
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- Channel
- Manchester Evening News
- Subscribers
- 144,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 619,358
- Channel views, pace per day
- 16,006 (on a normal day: 100,543)
- Video published
- October 12, 2026
- Video views so far
- 65,434 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 76,854
The numbers
The report passed the channel's usual full-day audience for Shorts before its first day was complete.
