In a major operation involving 200 people, Indian police shot down a tiger dubbed “Camparan’s man-eater” after the animal killed several people, authorities said on Sunday.
The predator had terrorized residents around Valmiki national park in Champaran in eastern India. The animal was responsible for the deaths of at least six people this Saturday, including a woman and her eight-year-old son.
Prior to these last two deaths, authorities had classified the tiger, a three- or four-year-old male, as a “man-eater”, which allowed it to be killed. Previous attempts to eradicate the animal had failed.
“Saturday afternoon, two teams went into the forest on two elephants and the third picked up where we thought the tiger was going to come out and we fired. […] To kill him there, local police chief Kiran Kumar told AFP.
Kumar said the operation took more than six hours to complete as residents made noise with metal containers.
Among the victims is a 12-year-old girl who was dragged from her bed Wednesday night, according to local media.
Environmental activists point to the rapid expansion of human settlements around the forest as a source of conflict between humans and wild animals in parts of India.
According to government figures, around 225 people died as a result of tiger attacks in India between 2014 and 2019.
source: Noticias
