Royal Bengal Tiger caught in Sunderbans

CANNING (WB): An aging male Royal Bengal Tiger which entered Annpur village in search of food at Gosaba in the Sundarbans has been caged by the forest department personnel.

The tiger swam across a small river from Pirkhali forest and entered the village where it killed a dog," Subrata Mukherjee, officer at the Sunderbans Tiger Reserve, said on Tuesday.

"Since the tiger killed a dog we realised it was too old to hunt and was in search of food," he said.

A trap was laid and the tiger was caught on Monday night, he said. The tiger was being taken taken to Sudhanyakhali jungle for observation. It would be released, but if it was found that it was too old to hunt, it would be transferred to the Alipore zoo in Kolkata, Mukherjee said.

Another tiger caught on Sunday at Kultali was sedated and under observation at Ajmalmari since it had an injury on its left leg.