Tiger injures handler at Steve Irwin family's Australia zoo

An animal handler was injured when a tiger swiped him at a zoo owned by the family of “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin, officials said.

The 35-year-old man was taken to hospital in a stable condition from Australia Zoo, north of Brisbane, with claw wounds to his forehead and left arm, ambulance service spokesman Mark Fisher said. He was discharged later.