A 'man-eating' tiger that had mauled 9 people in Bagaha, Bihar's West Champaran district has successfully been killed. In the past four days, the tiger had claimed the lives of up to four people, including a kid. Allegedly, as per reports, after a man named Sanjay Mahto (36), a resident of Dumri village under Bagahi panchayat in Ramnagar block close to the VTR, became prey to the man-eating tiger, chief wildlife warden Prabhat Kumar Gupta issued a "shoot at sight" order for the big cat.
The tiger killed the man when the victim went to relieve himself in some surrounding bushes close to the woodland. Following the event, villagers started looking for the tiger in the sugarcane fields. At the location, there are other camps for district police and forest authorities. The Valmiki Tiger Reserve, a roughly 900 sq km national park, is the only one in Bihar. There were 40 tigers in the reserve as of 2018.
A Distict Forest Officer (DFO) while talking to the news agency ANI said: "Orders for killing a tiger are issued as per procedure when it's established that tiger is accustomed to living in human habitation. Tiger killed four people in past three days."
A mother and her seven-year-old kid were allegedly killed by a wild animal in the Valmiki Tiger Reserve in Balua village, which is within the jurisdiction of the Govardhana police station in Bagaha. Similarly, a 12-year-old Bagadi Kumari was murdered by the tiger on Thursday night while she was asleep in her home in the Sigadi village of the Baghi Panchayat. According to sources, every fatality came from one of the communities close to the tiger reserve.
To tranquilize the tiger, the West Champaran district's forest department assembled a 400-person team. To capture the man-eating tiger, the Hyderabadi sniper Shafath Ali was also summoned to Bihar. The assaults are the consequence of significant man-animal confrontations in the area, according to officials.
(With Inputs From ANI)