A tigress was killed in Chhattisgarh near the Maharashtra border, when, with better planning, she could have been tranquilized. After six hours of being pounded by stones, when the bloodied tigress finally collapsed in a heap, a delirious cry broke out in Aamgaon Bagrutola village.As forest officials took away her carcass, villagers took out a victory march. For nearly a month, residents of the area had been living in fear of the tigress, who had lifted cattle, injured two men, and killed a woman in Gondia. “But she was not a man-eater, she had not consumed human flesh. Ideally, she should have been tranquilized and captured by the forest department,” said Sanjay Yadav, deputy director, National Tiger Conservation Authority. Forest officials claimed that a team had camped in the area for 10-12 days but was forced to return as Naxalism is a big problem in this area.
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