In a massive operation involving 200 personnel, including trackers on elephants, Indian police have killed a tiger known as the “Man-Eater of Champaran” that murdered at least nine people, according to officials on Sunday.In eastern India’s Champaran, near the Valmiki Tiger Reserve, the large cat had terrorised the inhabitants and killed at least six people in the previous month, including a woman and her eight-year-old kid on Saturday.
Authorities had already classified the tiger, who was supposedly a male of three or four years old, as a “man-eater,” meaning that it may be shot, before the two most recent kills.The previous attempts to sedate the animal had been unsuccessful.
According to local police commander Kiran Kumar, “two squads entered the forest on two elephants on Saturday afternoon, while the third one waited where we believed the tiger would emerge. We fired five rounds to kill it there.”The squad, which included eight shooters and around 200 forest department employees, finished the job in about six hours with the help of neighbourhood residents thumping tin cans, according to Kumar.
