Four injured in tiger attack in Rajasthan

As many as four people were injured in a tiger attack in KhairthalTijara district after the animal strayed out of Rajasthans Sariska National Park on Thursday officials said reported the PTIThe injured were admitted to hospitals and forest department teams are trying to tranquilise the tiger ST 2303 that entered the farms near Darbarpur village Forest Minister Sanjay Sharma said as per the PTIDarbarpur village development officer said that the movement of the tiger was tracked near a government school and locals have been asked to restrict from going to the area in view of the threat of tiger attackA team is camping in the area to tranquilise the tiger while another team has been called from Jaipur Sharma saidAccording to a local villagers working in farms spotted a tiger which created panic and nearly 100 people gathered and started tracking the tigerthe tiger attacked three locals Mahendra Virendra and Satish in which Satishs one arm got severely injured the villager said according to the PTIEarlier in the morning the tiger had attacked another man who was walking towards his home in Mundawar from where the animal entered the village and hid in the fieldsOdisha to bring five Royal Bengal tigers from Maharashtra MP by SeptemberMeanwhile to bolster big cat population in Odisha forest officials have begun the process of relocating five Royal Bengal Tigers from Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh with the transfer scheduled to be completed in SeptemberAccording to Principal Chief Conservator of Forests PCCFWildlife Susanta Nanda three of these tigers will be released into the Debrigarh Wildlife Sanctuary in Sambalpur while the remaining two will be introduced into the Similipal Tiger Reserve in Mayurbhanj reported the PTIOn our request both Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh have given their consent for relocation of their tigers to Odisha They have also identified the tigers from core areas of their forests Nanda told media persons on WednesdayTwo teams of Odisha forest officials will visit the two states very soon within a week to see the tigers he saidIn its latest tiger estimation conducted for the first time during 202324 in 47 forest divisions of Odisha 30 tigers and eight cubs were foundOut of the 30 Royal Bengal Tigers 27 were found in the Similipal Tiger Reserve STR while Keonjhar territorial and Keonjhar wildlife Paralakhemundi territorial and Hirakud wildlife had one tiger eachThe PCCF also said that the Nandankanan Zoological Park is all set to welcome two giraffes by the end of this monthThe pair of giraffes will be brought to the zoo from Alipore Zoological Garden Kolkata under the animal exchange programme he saidAt present one giraffe named Khushi is in the Nandankanan zoo The addition of two new giraffes will further enhance the animal population in the zoo he addedMeanwhile the male lion Krish born in the Nandankanan zoo in 2004 died on Wednesday due to old agewith PTI inputs