5 months ago
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The tiger that has been terrorising the residents of Vandikkadavu successful the Wayanad territory was captured aboriginal connected Friday aft a harrowing week that saw the decease of a section tribal leader.
The predator, a 14-year-old antheral identified arsenic WWL 48, was lured into a cage acceptable up by the Forest Department astatine astir 1.30 a.m.
The seizure follows the sidesplitting of Maran aka Kooman, 65, the caput of the Devargadda Kattunayaka Unnati tribal hamlet. The onslaught occurred connected Saturday greeting portion Maran was collecting firewood on the banks of the Kannarampuzha river, adjacent the Kurichiyadu wood range. He was accompanied by his sister, Kulli, who narrowly managed to escape.
Following the incident, the Forest Department deployed cages and monitored the country utilizing camera traps. Wildlife officials person since confirmed, done stripe signifier matching, that this circumstantial tiger was liable for the fatal attack.
Owing to the tiger’s precocious property and its past of quality conflict, the section has confirmed that the large feline volition not beryllium released backmost into the wild. It has been transported to a specialised conservation and attraction centre successful Kuppadi, wherever it volition stay nether imperishable observation.
