Men rescued after five-day siege by tigers

Rescuers finally reached five men trapped in trees by several Sumatran tigers for five days after the angry animals mauled a sixth man to death, police said.

First Lt Surya Purba said three tamers managed to drive the tigers away before the men, who were in a weak condition, were evacuated from trees in the protected Mount Leuser National Park in Tamiang, an Aceh district neighbouring with North Sumatra province.

The men were looking for rare agarwood — used to make incense and perfume — and accidently caught a tiger cub in a trap they were using to catch deer for food, said district police chief Lt Col Dicky Sondani.