HD Kote: An 8-10 year old male tiger which has killed three people has been caught by the forest department officials near Mysore. The officials and veterinary doctors tranquilised the man eater near Chikkabaragi village in Bandipur national park on Thursday evening. The tiger has now been brought to Mysore.
According to local villagers the tiger had killed three men and injured two in the last one week. All three bodies were left half eaten. The tiger's presence had created panic across the Bandipura national park. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah had ordered the forest and police departments to catch the tiger at any cost.
The team from the forest department had launched a massive tiger hunt also assisted by trained elephants. It was on Thursday after an elephant Kanthi smelled a tiger in a thick bush that the veterinary doctor Dr. Sanath, who was sitting on the elephant looking for the tiger, alerted the forest officials. Thereafter tranquilisers were fired into the bush out of which one hit the tiger and it fell asleep.
According to wildlife expert Joseph Hoover, who was at the spot, the tiger will be brought to Bannerghatta National Park in Bangalore in the next two days for a thorough medical check up and treatment.
Over 50 forest officials, 40 officials from the special tiger protection force and 5 elephants were deployed to catch the man eater. The government had even ordered the forest officials to shoot the tiger, if they found it impossible to catch the man eater alive.
However, some local villagers are claiming that the tiger that the forest department has caught is not the man eater. The tiger experts have dismissed the reports saying that the tiger was caught just 100 meters from the spot, where the first killing took place which proves that the officials have caught the right tiger.
According to Joseph Hoover, a DNA test can be conducted to find out more details.
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