25-05-2025
Tiger kills Pilibhit woman in third fatal attack in 2 weeks
Pilibhit: A tiger killed a woman while she was clearing weeds from her sugarcane plot near the Pilibhit Tiger Reserve on Sunday evening in Khirkiya Bargadiya village under the jurisdiction of Puranpur Kotwali police station, 150 metres from the Haripur forest range.
This is the third fatal tiger attack in the district in 12 days.
Laung Shree, 55, had gone to her field around 11am and was expected to return by 1pm. A search operation was initiated and her husband, Ramain, found her mangled body. Villagers said other women nearby did not hear her screams because of the noise from a tractor operating in a nearby field. "We informed the forest department as soon as the body was found, but they didn't arrive until after 6pm.
We waited for hours. They ignored our calls," a villager said.
Panic had already set in among residents near the reserve after two earlier tiger attacks in Nazirgang and Haripur Kishanpur villages on May 13 and 18. Forest authorities had launched a week-long operation to tranquilise the tiger suspected in those incidents but failed to capture it. "What is the point of their operation if the tiger is still roaming free?" asked another resident.
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SHO Satyendra Kumar told TOI that officers were sent to the spot to manage the situation, calm angry villagers and send the body for postmortem. "The situation was restored to normal," he said. Since Feb 2016, 63 people have died in man-tiger conflicts in the Pilibhit district, averaging around seven deaths per year.
