Police urge viewers not to share fatal tiger attack footage
BBC News' Short draws an unusually large audience for an appeal about the circulation of distressing images.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 389,413 views a day, 15 times a normal first day on this channel (26,406).
Do not share ‘distressing’ fatal tiger attack video, say police. #BBCNews
An appeal to stop the sharing of fatal tiger attack footage has reached about 265,000 views through BBC News in its first 12 hours. That is already far beyond the channel's usual full-day audience for a Short.
The update centers on police asking people not to circulate a video they describe as distressing. In the comments, viewers discuss the difficulty of containing footage once it is online and the impact its circulation can have on the dead man's family. Others focus on the tiger's fate.
A separate BBC News report on Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabian airports also drew an unusually large early audience. In that longer report, security correspondent Frank Gardner examines Saudi Arabia's defenses following the attacks, while the description reports that flights at Riyadh's international airport remain suspended.
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- Channel
- BBC News
- Subscribers
- 20,200,000 ▲ 100,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 25,265,694
- Channel views, pace per day
- 2,234,136 (on a normal day: 4,146,259)
- Video published
- October 12, 2026
- Video views so far
- 264,969 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 389,413
The numbers
The police-appeal Short has already exceeded BBC News' usual first-day views for that format, despite being only halfway through its first day.
