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Express news service Posted: Mar 14, 2008 at 2310 hrs IST
NAGPUR/LUCKNOW, MAR 14 The human-tiger conflict in Chandrapur district claimed its 13th victim since January 2006 with a 70-year-old man being mauled by a tiger in Brahmapuri forest division of the district on March 10.

Jingar Mohurle was missing since March 10. His body was found by villagers and Forest staffers on Thursday in the forest near Balapur,” Mohan Karnat, regional manager of the Forest Development Corporation of Maharashtra, told The Indian Express.

“We found injuries on his body and a few tiger hair at the spot,” he added. The man had gone to the forest to collect leaves used to make plates.

The competition for space has been growing between the tigers of Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR) and the residents of surrounding villages over the past two years.

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Late last year, a tiger had to be shot dead in Talodhi range after it started attacking humans. Since then the problem seems to have shifted to Mul range, where five persons have been killed so far this year.

Meanwhile, in a similar incident, in Dhorar Forest Range of Lakhimpur Kheri Forest Division in UP, the partly eaten body of a young woman, apparently attacked by a tiger, was found on Friday. The Lakhimpur Kheri Forest Division has written to the Principal Chief Conservator of Forest (Wildlife) & Chief Wildlife Warden requesting that the tiger be declared man-eater.

The animal had earlier killed a boy and attacked two other children. A team of experts has been called in to trap the animal.

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