India, Feb. 2 -- Two tigers died of electrocution in Madhya Pradesh's Shahdol district on Sunday after coming into contact with live wires laid by local farmers to protect crops from wild animals, forest officials said.

Officials said the body parts of the two tigers - one male and the other female - were found intact, suggesting that their deaths were not due to poaching.

Shahdol divisional forest officer (DFO) Taruna Verma said the forest department received information on Sunday night about a tiger's carcass in the Karpa beat area of Jaisinghnagar.

"Upon reaching the spot, the forest team found a carcass of a tigress also just 200 meters away. Both carcasses were found close to each other in the revenue area," Verma said.

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