Sheer panic.

That was the only way freelance photographer Mohd Syahrin Abdul Aziz could describe the moment he realised that his Hyundai Starex had collided with a tiger while on the way from Kuala Lumpur to Terengganu.

As he was still recovering from the shock following the accident, Syahrin told Malaysiakini there was a man who had rushed to the scene with a hammer and tried to dislodge the tiger’s fang.