Dutch tourist escapes tiger attack in Nepal

A Dutch tourist who survived a tiger attack in the jungles of Nepal over the weekend by climbing a tree said he was lucky to be alive and will now have a story to tell when he returns home.

Gerard Van Laar said he was attacked by the tiger when he and his Nepalese guide were hiking in Bardia National Park on Saturday.

“I was super lucky to be alive. I would have been dead if it had not been for Krishna [his guide],” Mr Laar told The Associated Press by telephone from Bardia, about 400km southwest of the capital, Kathmandu.