New Delhi: Indian police have shot dead a tiger dubbed the “Man-eater of Champaran” that killed at least nine people, in a major operation involving 200 people including trackers on elephants, officials said Sunday. The big cat had terrorised locals on the fringes of the Valmiki Tiger Reserve in Champaran in eastern India, killing at […]
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Mom fights tiger with bare hands to save her child
Mom fights tiger barehanded: An Indian woman, Archana Choudhary suffers injuries while fighting off a tiger. The tiger snatched her baby in response of which she grappled with the tiger with her bare hands. It attacked and tried to sink its teeth into the child’s head but the mother leaped to the rescue, he said. […]
Bangladesh arrests notorious tiger poacher
Bangladesh police have arrested a notorious poacher wanted for 20 years and believed to have killed around 70 endangered Bengal tigers. Local police chief Saidur Rahman said that Habib Talukder — nicknamed “Tiger Habib” — lived next to the forest and would flee whenever officers raided the area. “Acting on a tip-off, we finally succeeded […]