Tigers Eats Farmer in Front of Son in Madhya Pradesh Forest
The farmer’s son who visited farmland to look for his father saw the tiger eating him, police said
Bhopal: A 45-year-old farmer in a forested village in Madhya Pradesh’s Balaghat district was on Saturday eaten alive by a tiger even as his son remained a mute spectator to the horrific sight.
Prakash Pane, resident of the forested village of Kudwa under Katangi forest range, was attacked by a tiger when he was shooing away a wild pig by bursting firecracker in his farmland early on Saturday morning, police said.
The big cat grabbed him and then dragged him for about 100 meters where it started eating him.
The farmer’s son who visited farmland to look for his father saw the tiger eating him, police said.
He then raised an alarm, leading the villagers to gather at the spot.
The villagers chased away the tiger by pelting stones at it and recovered the body of the farmer.
The incident triggered outrage in the village with the locals heckling the forest guard Gulab Singh Uike for not taking any action despite being informed about the presence of the tiger in the area a week ago, police said.
The police along with the forest officials reached the village and took the situation under control by pacifying the villagers.
Katangi police station in-charge Kaushal Surya said the body has been recovered and sent for postmortem.
The local sub-divisional magistrate Madhuwant Rao Dhruve who reached the village to take stock of the situation said the tiger ate the lower part of the farmer.
Local forest ranger Bablu Lal said steps have been initiated to capture the tiger.
In the neighboring Umaria district in Madhya Pradesh, three people including a woman and a 12-year-old boy were killed by tigers in the buffer zones of Bandhavgarh tiger reserve in separate incidents in the last one month.
