India, Feb. 26 -- A two-year-old tigress was beaten to death with sticks by villagers in Dudhwa buffer zone on Wednesday morning after it entered the village in Lakhimpur Kheri district and attacked two persons.

Officials said the tigress was still alive when a team of forest officials and district authorities reached the area but angry villagers prevented them from entering the village to rescue the tigress. The villagers were finally persuaded to step back but the tigress had succumbed to injuries by then.

"The big cat, which turned out to be a tigress of around two years, had sneaked into the village and attacked a calf and a few persons in a hutment. The villagers later gheraoed the tigress and killed her," Dudhwa Tiger Reserve (DTR...