Pictured: Female zookeeper mauled to death by a tiger during a 'freak accident' at British zoo is named as Rosa King, 33, after terrified visitors were evacuated amid 'blood-curdling screams'

The zoo’s four tigers were looked after by carnivore keeper Rosa (pictured). One of her colleagues wrote on Twitter last night: ‘I feel physically sick’

The zookeeper who was killed by a tiger as visitors heard a ‘blood-curdling’ scream from the enclosure has been named as Rosa King.

The 33-year-old's colleagues desperately tried to save her by distracting the big cat with chunks of meat, witnesses said.

More than 100 visitors were evacuated from Hamerton Zoo in Cambridgeshire as ‘all hell broke loose’ and police and paramedics rushed to the scene.

Witness Pete Davis said he believed Miss King was attacked after rushing to help a colleague in the tiger enclosure.

He said: ‘There’s no doubting it was a girl’s scream and something terrible had happened. It sounds like a tiger turned on her.

Hamerton Zoo’s carnivore keeper Rosa King is pictured with two of the Cambridgeshire wildlife park’s four tigers on World Tiger Day last year

Colleagues of the 33-year-old (shown feeding one of the tigers) desperately tried to save her by distracting the big cat with chunks of meat, witnesses said.