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A tigress declared a man-eater, was recovered dormant successful Kerala's Wayanad. (Source: Express Archives)
A tigress, which was declared a man-eater and facing a shoot-at-sight order, was recovered dormant adjacent a location aboriginal Monday successful Kerala’s Wayanad. The carcass of the tigress, astir 6 to 7 years old, had infighting wounds erstwhile its assemblage was recovered successful the Mananthavady area, said wood section officials.
On Sunday, Kerala Forest Minister A K Saseendran declared the tigress liable for the death of the 45-year-old tribal woman past Friday, and ordered that it beryllium changeable dead.
Deepa K S, Chief Conservator of Forest, North Kerala, told the media successful Mananthavady that the tigress was identified arsenic the 1 that killed the tribal pistillate past Friday and attacked a wood official, who was a portion of the Rapid Response Team searching for the animal, Sunday. Deepa said each the 38 cameras successful the portion had the visuals of the aforesaid tiger.
The tigress was spotted astir midnight astatine Palakkavu wrong the Mananthavady municipal area, and the wood section teams tracking the carnal recovered it dormant successful a adjacent area.
Dr Arun Zachariah, Chief Vet Surgeon, besides a portion of the hunt team, said the tigress’s assemblage bore wounds some aged and fresh. Zachariah said it was suspected that these wounds were sustained during infighting with different tigers.
Following the decease of the pistillate successful the tiger attack, Mananthavady successful Wayanad witnessed monolithic protests against the wood department’s nonaccomplishment to bring down the escalating attacks from chaotic animals.
After the carnal attacked a wood official, who was portion of the squad tracking the tiger, the section Sunday abandoned the program to dart the man-eating tiger and ordered it to termination the large cat.
A curfew has been imposed successful selected divisions nether the Mananthavady municipal country for 48 hours starting Monday morning.
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