Tiger carcass found in newly dug well at private tea estate in the Nilgiris

A tiger carcass was recovered connected Thursday successful a recently dug good astatine a backstage beverage property successful the Keelgothagiri wood country nether the Nilgiris Forest Division.

According to Forest Department officials, the incidental occurred astatine a backstage beverage property successful the Kadacholai area, wherever a 20-foot-deep good had been precocious dug.

Following complaints of a foul odour from the site, wood unit inspected the good and recovered the decomposed carcass of a tiger. Officials said the carnal mightiness person accidentally fallen into the good and died.

A squad from the Forest Department is investigating the origin of death. The carcass has been sent for post-mortem examination, and further enactment volition beryllium taken based connected the findings.