The animal had killed four persons in Amravati, including a teenager.
The sloth bear that had killed four persons in a village in Melghat forest of Amravati district Thursday morning, was killed by a tracking team on Saturday.
The tracking team was looking for the bear since the incident occurred in Jarida village, on the outskirts of Sipna forest along the Madhya Pradesh border in the thickly forested Melghat range in Satpuda.
On Saturday afternoon, the team tracked the bear — a young male — about one-and-a-half km away from the village, forest officials said. The team first tried to tranquilise the animal, who began beating himself unusually, according to the Melghat forest field director AK Mishra.
The bear began chasing the tracking team after their efforts. The SRPF troops then neutralised the animal, officials said. According to sloth bear expert and assistant conservator of forest Ajay Pilari Seth, the bear behaviour was abnormal.
Initially, the forest officials thought that the animal that had attacked the villagers must be a female in search of her cubs, but later found he was male.
On Wednesday night, the bear strayed into the village and clawed four people to death, including a forest department employee and a teacher, in what is being described a freak and first incident of its kind in Vidarbha.
On Thursday, forest officials who went looking for the bear found only the bodies of two other victims, one of them a teacher. The fourth victim was a 17-year-old boy. Three others escaped its clutches with injuries.
Meanwhile, in an unrelated development, the central zoo authority ordered for the shifting of two sloth bears — a male and female about 16 years of age — from the Maharajbaug zoo of Nagpur to Bangalore's biological centre due to inadequate facilities and violation of norms.
Three rescued sloth bears from Chhattisgarh have also been ordered to be shifted to a bear rescue centre in Bangalore.
The five animals were transported from Nagpur on Saturday afternoon in specified cages laden in a truck to Bangalore under the supervision of a team of centre's veterinary doctors and sloth bear experts.
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