Doctors forced to amputate after boy was attacked while feeding bear through cage at park zoo in Henan province

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A bear in central China has bitten off the arm of a nine-year-old boy who tried to feed it through the bars of its cage.

Media reports said the attack happened on Saturday afternoon at a zoo in Pingdingshan Hebin park in Henan province.

A doctor at the Pingdingshan Number 152 hospital said the boy lost his entire right arm, which had to be amputated.