Yep, That's what made me think that maybe all this tiger needed was something, or someone, to sink it's claws into in order to climb up out of the moat. I know how much it hurts to have a small kitten do this...I can't even begin to imagine the pain of having a 350-pound tiger do it.
Which makes me wonder how he (the human victim) ended up outside the compound then, and not down in it.
I don't think we know yet what happened.