India, Feb. 15 -- The tiger is wounded and weak, hence hunting down human beings, say officials; no trace of it so far
A 60-member team of the Bihar forest department, armed with tranquilizer guns, has been conducting extensive searches in the West Champaran district to catch a tigress that has killed three and injured six others in the last one week.
The tigress strayed out of the Valmiki Tiger Reserve (VTR), the only tiger reserve in the state, in the beginning of February 2021, according to forest department officials. It is 13-14 years old, they added.
According to Surendra Singh, conservator of forest wildlife, Patna:
"Our team of forest officials has been camping in the forest areas of the reserve and trying to trace the tigress, ...