Tigers maul two in Maharashtra, UP

“We found injuries on his body and a few tiger hair at the spot,” he added. The man had gone to the forest to collect leaves used to make plates.

The competition for space has been growing between the tigers of Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR) and the residents of surrounding villages over the past two years.

Late last year, a tiger had to be shot dead in Talodhi range after it started attacking humans. Since then the problem seems to have shifted to Mul range, where five persons have been killed so far this year.

Meanwhile, in a similar incident, in Dhorar Forest Range of Lakhimpur Kheri Forest Division in UP, the partly eaten body of a young woman, apparently attacked by a tiger, was found on Friday. The Lakhimpur Kheri Forest Division has written to the Principal Chief Conservator of Forest (Wildlife) & Chief Wildlife Warden requesting that the tiger be declared man-eater.

The animal had earlier killed a boy and attacked two other children. A team of experts has been called in to trap the animal.