Man-eater of Uttarakhand, a six-year-old tigress shot dead

In one of the biggest operations launched in Uttarakhand in the recent past to kill a man-eater, a six-year-old tigress, who had killed two villagers and had injured five in Ramnagar villages, was shot dead on Thursday afternoon.

“Initially we thought a leopard had killed them,” Chief Wildlife Warden Digvijay Singh Khati said, adding that soon after it was found that a tigress had killed the two villagers, an order was issued to kill the man-eater.