A man-eater tigress has been shot dead in India after a massive six-week hunt involving hundreds of forest workers, helicopters, drones and thermal image equipment.
Forest department officials in Uttarakhand’s Nainital district said the tigress was yesterday shot dead at a village where it was hiding in a sugarcane field and nursing bullet wounds she suffered the previous day.
It was believed to have killed two people and injured another five, causing panic among farmers who were too afraid to harvest crops from their fields.
The creature is said to have frequented agricultural areas, leaving farmers too scared to harvest their crops.
