Tiger Kills UP Farmer in Dudhwa National Park Buffer Zone; Half-Eaten Body Located

New Delhi: Jagdish, a 50-year-old farmer was mauled to death by a tiger in the Dudhwa buffer zone on Monday. Villagers discovered his half-eaten body and tiger pugmarks at the place where the body was found. This indicated that it was a case of a tiger attack.

The ill-fated farmer was missing since he went to check his sugarcane crop on Sunday. The deceased was an inhabitant of Katthauha village near Lakhimpur Kheri. B Prabhakar, field director of Dudhwa Tiger Reserve said the victim’s body was found by some villagers in the Belrayan range of Dudhwa on Monday morning.

Forest department is monitoring the movements of the man-eater tiger and driving it back into the forest, Prabhakar said.

Earlier in April, a 45-year-old farmer was killed in a tiger attack near the Manjhra Purab forest at the Dudhwa buffer zone.