Chandrapur, Oct 24 A 60-year-old farmer was killed in a tiger attack in eastern Maharashtra’s Chandrapur district on Saturday evening, a forest official said.
The deceased was identified as Nana Kamadi, a resident of Palasgaon Jat in Sindewahi teshil.
A tiger attacked him while he was working in the fields, the official said.
Elsewhere in the district, a Forest Department team succeeded in capturing ‘T-122,’ a six-year-old tiger that had terrorised the population in Samda, Nilsani, Pedgaon, Sonapur, and Wagholi-Buti.
The tiger had killed three cattle grazers in recent weeks.
A 6-month-old female leopard was run over by a train on Ballarpur-Gondia line during the day, officials said.
(PTI News)
