Tiger mauls 25-year-old cattle herder to death Tiger deaths outside tiger reserves has been a cause of concern. FILE PIC BY MADHUSUDHAN.SR
The incident occurred around 1pm in Compartment 154 of Moharli-1 beat under Moharli buffer forest range. With the death, 29 people have been killed in wildlife attacks in Chandrapur district this year. Of these, 27 died in tiger attacks and one each in elephant and leopard attacks.
Vijay Madhukar Meshram, a resident of Junona, was taking cattle for grazing when the tiger attacked him. He was accompanied by two other cattle grazers, who alerted the forest officials and villagers about the attack. Forest and police teams soon reached the spot. Range forest officer Santosh Thipe and police inspector Santosh Shegaonkar, along with their teams, conducted a panchnama in the presence of wildlife warden Mukesh Bhandakkar. Meshram’s body was later sent to the rural hospital in Bhadrawati for postmortem.