This story is from May 2, 2020

UP: Three villagers injured in tiger attacks in Pilibhit

Three people were injured and two brothers had a narrow escape when an adult tiger attacked them on the towpath of Jara canal in Jari village, under Gajraula police station, on Friday morning. The spot is at around 1 km from Mala forest range of Pilibhit Tiger Reserve.
UP: Three villagers injured in tiger attacks in Pilibhit
The tiger also attempted to attack a forest department team that arrived to push it back into the wild.
PILIBHIT: Three people were injured and two brothers had a narrow escape when an adult tiger attacked them on the towpath of Jara canal in Jari village, under Gajraula police station, on Friday morning. The spot is at around 1 km from Mala forest range of Pilibhit Tiger Reserve.
The tiger also attempted to attack a forest department team that arrived to push it back into the wild.

District magistrate Vaibhav Shrivastav, ASP Rohit Mishra, field director of PTR H. Rajamohan and deputy director Naveen Khandelwal rushed to the spot along with police and the field forest force to take stock of the situation.
According to the victims, the tiger first attacked two brothers -- Gurpreet Singh and Hardeep Singh of village Jari -- when they were on way to their agricultural field on their motorcycle. They had a close shave but managed to flee by accelerating their bike.
The next minute, the tiger pounced at Ram Bahadur, a cyclist, and injured him. The big cat left him as it was distracted by the noise of the bike’s engine and horn blown by the two brothers.
Within 10 minutes, the tiger pounced on two commuters, Ujagar Singh and his aide Lalta Prasad, of Lalpur village. They sustained serious claw injuries on their heads and shoulders. As they started to scream and brandish the rod they were carrying, the tiger abandoned them and disappeared into the nearby shrubs.

Khandelwal said the tiger charged at the forest staff when they tried to push it back towards the jungle.
“The operation was suspended on Friday afternoon and will be resumed depending upon the suitability of the ground conditions as we don’t want to tranquilize the tiger. For the safety and security of villagers, the forest teams will keep monitoring the big cat's movement till the time it retreats into the forest," Khandelwal said.
The victims would be given financial compensation, he added.
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Keshav Agarwal

Keshav Agarwal is a media person working with TOI at Pilibhit since June, 2014. He files news stories on various issues, esp forest & wildlife, environment, sugarcane farming and the sugar industry in India.

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