Forest guards kill tiger in ‘accidental firing’ near Kaziranga National Park
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An incident of “accidental firing” has resulted in the demise of a tiger on the outskirts of Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve.
Two forest guards and an off-the-cuff employee noticed the carcass of the male tiger at about 7.10 a.m. on June 18 in the Karuabari space on the fringes of the nationwide park.
“The carcass was found near its kill. On enquiry, it was found that the tiger died due to a bullet wound,” Divisional Forest Officer Ramesh Chandra Gogoi mentioned.
The bullet was suspected to have been fired unintentionally when a group of forest guards and officers tried to scare the tiger away from a village close by late June 17 night, he added. The Park’s Field Director, P. Sivakumar mentioned an enquiry has been ordered into the demise of the tiger though a preliminary investigation confirmed a forest guard fired in self-defence.
“The tiger is about 10 years old and was probably not agile enough to hunt in the wild. It had killed a domestic buffalo the day before and returned to the village,” he mentioned.
The tiger apparently pounced on the forest guards who tried to drive it again to the forest.
There have been cases of forest guards firing at some giant animals throughout Assam’s wildlife preserves to save lots of their colleagues from being attacked.
The final tiger census had estimated Kaziranga’s striped cat inhabitants at 118. The park has the best density of tigers in the world at one per 5 sq. km.
Tigers have usually strayed out of Kaziranga, extra so when the park will get flooded at the least annually.
In July 2020, the Kaziranga authorities had to supply a “safe passage” to 3 tigers that needed to escape from the flooded park to the hills of Karbi Anglong district by way of human habitations.
Another tiger was equally guided to the jungles after spending 11 hours in a goat shed at Kandolimari village adjoining the park.
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