Spotted hyena bites off toddler's wrist in Dhaka zoo

A spotted hyena has bitten off the wrist from the right hand of a 2-year-old boy at Bangladesh National Zoo in Dhaka’s Mirpur.

The toddler put his hand into the cage through iron grills and nets when others were not noticing around 11:45am on Thursday, police said.

Mafizur Rahman, an assistant commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, said the grills and nets of the cage are seven feet high.

Spotted hyena bites off toddlers wrist in Dhaka zoo

It also has an iron safety barrier and instructions not to cross the bar, but the child somehow went through the railing.

He was being treated at the National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation.

Mafizur said the child came to the zoo with his mother and five other relatives from Gazipur in the morning.

 “We’re checking if someone’s negligence led to the incident.”

Spotted hyena bites off toddlers wrist in Dhaka zoo

Mohammad Rafiqul Islam, the director of the zoo, said they formed a committee to investigate the incident.

 “If someone is found negligent, they will face action.”

Rafiqul said the zoo authorities took necessary steps for the treatment of the child.