Tiger kills another woman near Nagpur

A woman was killed and partly eaten by a tiger near Ranbodi village,about 50 km from here,in the newly-carved-out Umred-Karandla sanctuary in Nagpur district.

Home to at least 12 tigers,the sanctuary declared last year has only one village – Ranbodi.

Villager Layjabai Fukat (65) had gone to the forest to collect mahua flowers. When she did not return home at regular time,a search began. Forest staff and villagers later found her partly eaten body.

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A hand,a breast and part of her neck had been eaten, said Nagpur honorary wildlife warden Roheet Karu.

With this,the human toll in Vidarbhas man-animal conflict this year has gone up to ten four attributed to tigers,four to leopards and two to wild boars.

Raj gives Rs 5 lakh

MNS chief Raj Thackeray has released the Rs 5 lakh he promised for detection of tiger poaching case in Chandrapur. The case pertained to a tiger whose body was found cut into pieces near Borda village in Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve last year.

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