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The tiger, however, left the sheep and slipped into nearby forests when the shepherd raised an alarm.

District Forest Officer Neeraj Kumar Tebriwal handed over a cheque of Rs 5 lakh to her husband Vasudev, while another cheque of the same value was given to her mother Vadai Vimala, at the office of Kagaznagar FDO.

Locals said Rauthu Suresh received injuries on his neck when the tiger tried to kill him while he was picking cotton balls. Suresh managed to survive by freeing himself from the jaws of the tiger by raising an alarm

According to the procedure, villagers are advised not to use forest footpaths. They are also not to raise objections to gates set up by the Forest department along routes passing through forests. They have to engage in far activities only in groups of at least eight to 10 persons and have to be escorted by a sentry. Farmers have to stand guard over their crops only by staying on a machan and not on the ground.

Residents of many villages in Sirpur (T) Assembly segment are on the edge following the killing of a woman by a tiger at Nazrulnagar in Kagaznagar mandal on Friday.

Sources said that Morle Laxmi (21) from Gannaram village died on the spot after a tiger attacked her while she was picking cotton balls in a farm on the outskirts of Nazrulnagar at around 8 am

According to forest officials, about 10 tigers and five cubs were currently residing in forests in Asifabad

The area has temporarily been closed for farming, and additional manpower has been deployed to prevent any further incidents, Chief Conservator of Forest Dr Jitendra Ramgaonkar said

Tiger attack claims the life of a 77-year-old Man in Madhya Pradesh's Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve (BTR).

Mancherial: In a first man-animal conflict in recent history of the district, a shepherd suffered minor injuries when a tiger attacked him while he was returning home from the forest on the outskirts of Oddugudem village in Vemanapalli mandal on Thursday. Sources said Enumula Shankar, a resident of Oddugudem village, had taken his herd of […]

Kalpana and Sindhu were attacked by the big cat when they were on their way to collect tendu leaves in Desaiganj Wadsa forest range

Forest Revenue Officer S Venugopal said the tiger attempted to attack the cattle tied to a wooden pole at around 4 am.

An elusive tiger which was moving around in the forests in the district for the past few weeks has reportedly attacked a cow and injured it at the village on Monday early hours.

He will later convene a review meeting with officials of the forest department over monitoring of tiger and protection measures in Kaghaznagar town in the afternoon

Hyderabad: Increasing number of big cats in neighbouring Maharashtra and animal instinct of tigers to establish their territory seem to have resulted in the killing of two youngsters in Kumram Bheem Asifabad district in quick succession. Telangana Forest Department, which has embarked on locating pug marks of the two tigers that entered the State a […]

Collector promised to provide employment opportunity to one of the kin of the girl

Kumram Bheem Asifabad: A tiger killed a teenaged tribal girl when she was plucking cotton in Kondapalli village of Penchikalpet mandal on Sunday. Five other women managed to escape from the tiger attack. This is the second incident of tiger attack to be reported in Kaghaznagar forest division in a span of 18 days. Sources […]

Terming the incident as unfortunate, Forest Minister A Indrakaran Reddy conveyed his heartfelt condolences to the family members.

The badly mauled body of Sidam Vignesh (21) was found later by fellow villagers.