Giraffe dies by hanging himself from a tree in freak zoo accident (video)

A 10-year-old male giraffe has died in a freak accident that occurred at a zoo in China.

Hai Rong died on the afternoon of April 16th, in the Kunming Yuantongshan Zoo in China. He was scratching his neck against the tree when he got stuck in a gap between branches.

Zoo officials rallied round to try to free the giant animal. Hours later, they succeeded but it was already too late. Zoo staff tried to revive Hai but they were not successful.

Watch a video of the incident below.