LAKHIMPUR KHERI, Nov. 15 -- A man identified as Chandrika Prasad, 65, lost his life in the Dudhwa buffer zone in UP's Lakhimpur Kheri district when a wild animal believed to be a tiger attacked near his home in Vrindavan Colony in Sampurnanagar on Friday night, said forest department officials. Officials said the incident occurred while he was in the fields.

Concerned over his long absence, his son Vishnu and other family members searched for him and recovered his partially eaten body from the sugarcane field. They claimed to have sighted the tiger which fled into the neighbouring forests after they raised an alarm.

When contacted, Dudhwa buffer zone's deputy director Kirti Chaudhary confirmed the incident, noting that pugmarks would he...