Rudrapur, Feb. 16 -- In a bid to trap the tiger that killed a 65-year-old woman in Nainital district, the forest department has placed the victim's blood-stained bedsheet inside a cage to attract the animal through scent, officials said on Sunday. Two cages have been installed near the site of the incident in the Fatehpur forest range under the Ramnagar Forest Division. Forest officials said the bedsheet was used to wrap the body of the deceased, Ganga Devi, when villagers and forest personnel brought her home after the attack. According to officials familiar with the operation, the smell of blood emanating from the cloth may draw the tiger towards the cage. "Generally, tigers and leopards tend to return to the spot where they have made a kill to consume the remaining flesh. As per this behavioural pattern, we have placed the blood-soaked bedsheet in the cage so that its scent may lure the tiger inside," said ranger of the Fatehpur forest range, Pradeep Asgola, . Ganga Devi, a resident of Peepal Pokhra village, was killed on Thursday when she had gone to the forest along with her daughter-in-law, Pushpa Devi, to collect fodder. Her mutilated body was later recovered and brought back to the village wrapped in a bedsheet. Besides installing two cages, the forest department has also deployed 12 camera traps in and around the area to monitor the tiger's movement. However, till Sunday, neither had the tiger been sighted nor had its image been captured on the cameras, officials said. Forest personnel are intensifying patrolling in vulnerable pockets and conducting awareness drives in nearby villages. "We are advising villagers not to venture into the forest alone. If necessary, they should move in groups and avoid unnecessary movement in forested areas or village outskirts during evening hours," the ranger added. The Fatehpur forest range has witnessed repeated incidents of tiger attacks in recent years. In 2020-21, seven people lost their lives and one person was injured in tiger attacks in the range, posing a continuing challenge for forest staff tasked with safeguarding both human and wildlife interests....