It terrified the population and ate 9 people: a “man-eating” tiger was killed in India
It took nearly six hours for a team of 8 snipers and 200 members of the forest department to track down and kill the beast, while previous attempts all ended in failure.
He was nicknamed “The Champaran Eater Man”. A tiger was killed this weekend in India after devouring 9 people, Sunday 9 October Reports West of France. The animal, aged 3 or 4, has been terrorizing residents of Champaran, an area in the east of the country, for months.
It took nearly six hours for a team of 8 snipers and 200 members of the forest department to track down and kill the beast, while previous attempts all ended in failure.
“Two teams went into the woods with two elephants on Saturday afternoon and a third team waited where we thought the tiger would come out, and we shot […] “To kill him there,” local police chief Kiran Kumar told AFP.
Between 3,726 and 5,578 people worldwide
According to environmentalists, he explains Le Figaro, Human activities around areas where wild animals are found explain these frequent occurrences. Our colleagues add: “Nearly 225 people lost their lives in tiger attacks between 2014 and 2019 in India, according to government data.”
The majority of tigers on this planet live in India. according to Paris MatchToday, there are between 3,726 and 5,578 individuals in the world. The tiger is still an endangered species.
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