Tiger Attack in Maharashtra: Kills Man in Chandrapur, Another Feline Captured by Forest Officials
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. A 60-year-old man has been killed in a tiger attack in Maharashtra's Chandrapur district, forest officials said on Wednesday.
Chandrapur, July 19: A 60-year-old man has been killed in a tiger attack in Maharashtra's Chandrapur district, forest officials said on Wednesday. Besides, a tiger that killed a man in Chandrapur last month was captured by forest officials on Tuesday, they said. Cheetah Deaths at Kuno National Park: Madhya Pradesh Govt Removes Chief Wildlife Warden Javir Singh Chouhan; Aseem Srivastava Appointed New Chief.
In the latest incident of human-animal conflict, a tiger attacked shepherd Rushi Kishan Devtale, belonging to Bamangaon village in Chimur tehsil, on Tuesday when he went to a protected forest area in Kolara range of Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR), a range forest officer said. The man died on the spot, he said. Leopard Attack in Uttar Pradesh: Woman Mauled to Death by Big Cat in Bijnor, Farmers Stage Protest To Demand Capture of Killer Animal.
Forest personnel later sent the body for postmortem, the official said.
In another development, tiger 'FL-2' that killed a man here on June 15 was captured after being tranquilised by a forest team in Sindewahi range on Tuesday, a forest department release said. The full grown tiger was caged and shifted to a zoo in Nagpur after a medical examination late Tuesday evening, it said.
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