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A tiger scare has resurfaced astatine Kalikavu, reviving the fearfulness and anxiousness that had gripped the country aft a rubber tapping idiosyncratic was killed successful a tiger onslaught successful May.
Residents are surviving connected borderline aft a goat was killed and dragged distant 2 days agone by an carnal suspected to beryllium a tiger. The goat was slain astir the country wherever 44-year-old rubber tapping worker Gafoor Ali was mauled to decease by a tiger connected May 15.
Residents look to beryllium convinced that a tiger is roaming nearby. Some of them said they heard the carnal growl. The dense undergrowth successful the rubber plantations is seen arsenic a cleanable hideout for the tiger and different wildlife.
After Gafoor Ali’s decease sparked nationalist outrage, the Forest section yet captured the tiger. The carnal was trapped successful a cage aft a astir two-month hunt led by Chief Forest Veterinary Surgeon Arun Zachariah.
