Ramnagar, Jan. 6 -- Panic gripped the Ramnagar Forest Division in Nainital district yesterday evening after a tiger attack claimed the life of a labourer in the Patkot area of the Kota Range. The incident occurred at Bhalon village under the Patkot area, where a tiger attacked a labourer engaged in pipeline-laying work and killed him on the spot. However, acting swiftly, the Forest department launched an intensive operation soon after and managed to successfully tranquilise and capture the attacking tiger within about five and a half hours of the incident.
It may be reminded here that the tiger killed the worker at around 6:45 p.m. yesterday. The deceased has been identified as Abhimanyu Kumar, son of Bhagelu Sah, aged 30, a resident of Jo...