A 77-year-old man was mauled to death by a tiger in Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve (BTR) in Madhya Pradesh`s Umaria district, an official said on Friday, reported PTI.

The incident occurred in Darodi beat under Ghamokhar forest range of BTR on Thursday afternoon, he said. The victim Sukhdev Prasad Rai had taken his cattle to graze in the forest along with a few others, when a big cat attacked him, forest ranger Vijay Shankar Shrivastava said.