A ferocious tiger has caused serious commotion in a village after storming the area to unleash brutal horror on residents.
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Babu Ram, a 55-year-old villager has been killed at Piparia Santosh, a small Indian village on Monday morning.
The man was mauled to death by a tiger.
According to the Times of India, the village is near Mallpur Khajuria village and Majof range of PTR. Forest officials have rushed to the spot.
A team of experts arrived from Lucknow in the evening to launch an operation to tranquillise the tiger, which will begin on Tuesday.
According to the sub divisional officer of social forestry division, KP Singh, Babu Ram had gone to irrigate his sugarcane crop on Sunday evening and slept there beneath his bullock cart.
The tiger apparently dragged the man into the sugarcane fields where it consumed his right arm and the flesh. When his son Neeraj Sharma went in the morning, he found that his father was missing.
There were pug marks on the ground and blood stains indicating that the body had been dragged away towards the cane field. He informed villagers and forest staff.
When the forest department personnel reached there, they heard the tiger growling as they attempted to take out Babu Ram's body. Range officer of Barahi, Anil Shah, and deputy ranger of Mahof, Mobin Arif, fired in the air to scare off tiger. Then the body was fetched.
As the tiger could not be pushed back into the forest, foresters team encircled the cane field with a trapping net till the big cat is tranquillized by the team from Lucknow.
The deceased's family has been given Rs 10,000 as spot relief.