Tigress kills man; tribals shoot boar

  • 28/04/2008

  • Tribune (New Delhi)

A tigress killed a man in the Mohraina forest range of Lakhimpur Kheri district in Uttar Pradesh, official sources said here today. Ramesh (30) had gone to the forest to collect firewood on Friday. When he did not return, members of his family tried to trace him. They spotted a mutilated body of Ramesh and the tigress sitting next to him in the forest yesterday, they said. Divisional forest officer R.C. Jha has issued a warning to the people not to venture into dense forest. BARIPADA: An adult wild boar was found dead on the banks of Saan-Ghaghra Nullah, about 75 km from here, on the fringes of Simlipal Wildlife Sanctuary on Saturday. The animal had been shot dead by a small group of five tribal hunters yesterday, Forest Department sources said. Wild boar is a protected species and finds its place in the graded schedule of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972. Forest officials said a small tribal group, armed with four countrymade guns and six sets of bows and arrows, came from the neighbouring Katuria-Mahalisahi village under the Kaptipada range. They killed the boar and cut it into two pieces. A team of forest officials arrested one of the hunters and seized four countrymade guns and six sets of bows and arrows. The other hunters escaped under the cover of darkness. A forest official said the remaining four tribal hunters had been identified and would be nabbed soon. The arrested one was produced before a local court at Udala and was remanded in judicial custody.