BAREILLY: A stray tigress was beaten to death by angry villagers after it entered a house and attacked a 45-year-old woman in the Palia area near Dudhwa Tiger Reserve in Lakhimpur Kheri district around 4am on Wednesday. Ramrani, was sleeping in the courtyard of her house when the tigress attacked her. Her husband, Ratan Lal, and other villagers rushed to help, beating the tigress to death with sticks.
When the forest department retrieved the tigress’s carcass, its face was found crushed, leading to suspicions that it had been shot. However, an autopsy conducted at the Dudhwa camp office found no traces of a bullet. SSP Sankalp Sharma told TOI, “In an attempt to save the woman, they attacked the tigress and beat her to death using sticks. The woman sustained deep injuries on her head.” Officials said its viscera has been sent to IVRI Bareilly for tests.
Villagers alleged the tigress had been wandering the area for days, charging at people, yet the forest department took no action despite repeated complaints. A resident, requesting anonymity, told TOI, “Wild animals often enter our village. There should be proper fencing. This tigress had been roaming here for days, but the authorities ignored our pleas.”
T Rengaraju, deputy director of the reserve’s core area, said, “Forest ranger Vinay Kumar’s team received information that a tigress was lying injured in Phulwaria village. Officials, along with the police and the Special Tiger Protection Force (STPF), rushed to the spot, but villagers prevented them from reaching the carcass. The district administration helped us retrieve the carcass. Veterinarian Dr Daya Shankar examined it and found deep head injuries. We are investigating the case and will register an FIR as per NTCA guidelines. We have also received reports that the tigress injured a couple of people, and we are monitoring their condition.”
In Feb 2018, a tigress was killed by villagers after it attacked a local in Chaltua village in the Kishanpur Wildlife Sanctuary in the reserve.
Bareilly: A stray tigress was beaten to death by angry villagers after it entered a house and attacked a 45-year-old woman in the Palia area near Dudhwa Tiger Reserve in Lakhimpur Kheri district around 4am on Wednesday. Ramrani, was sleeping in the courtyard of her house when the tigress attacked her. Her husband, Ratan Lal, and other villagers rushed to help, beating the tigress to death with sticks.
When the forest department retrieved the tigress’s carcass, its face was found crushed, leading to suspicions that it had been shot. However, an autopsy conducted at the Dudhwa camp office found no traces of a bullet. SSP Sankalp Sharma told TOI, “In an attempt to save the woman, they attacked the tigress and beat her to death using sticks. The woman sustained deep injuries on her head.” Officials said its viscera has been sent to IVRI Bareilly for tests.
Villagers alleged the tigress had been wandering the area for days, charging at people, yet the forest department took no action despite repeated complaints. A resident, requesting anonymity, told TOI, “Wild animals often enter our village. There should be proper fencing. This tigress had been roaming here for days, but the authorities ignored our pleas.”
T Rengaraju, deputy director of the reserve’s core area, said, “Forest ranger Vinay Kumar’s team received information that a tigress was lying injured in Phulwaria village. Officials, along with the police and the Special Tiger Protection Force (STPF), rushed to the spot, but villagers prevented them from reaching the carcass. The district administration helped us retrieve the carcass. Veterinarian Dr Daya Shankar examined it and found deep head injuries. We are investigating the case and will register an FIR as per NTCA guidelines. We have also received reports that the tigress injured a couple of people, and we are monitoring their condition.”
In Feb 2018, a tigress was killed by villagers after it attacked a local in Chaltua village in the Kishanpur Wildlife Sanctuary in the reserve.
