Towns surrounding TS, Maharashtra in worry over tiger attacks

Adilabad: People in the surrounding towns of Telangana and Maharashtra are grasped by worry of tiger attacks after a 2nd event occurred at Anandguda in Lakkadkot gram panchayat– in Rajura taluk of Maharashtra. 2 different events of tiger( s) killing– of 2 adivasi farmers– happened on the state’s borders in the last 19 days. Farmer Kursenga Jangu, 60, was eliminated in Anandguda on Dec 3. In neighboring Khanapur of Wankidi mandal in Komaram Bheem Asifabad district, farmer Sidam Bheem had actually been eliminated on Nov.15 In the current occurrence, the farmer was selecting the cotton yield. He went inside the fields after hearing some weird sounds. His member of the family later on discovered the body of the Kursenga Jangu. Anandguda town headman Gedam Raghunath stated farmers have actually stopped going to the farming fields for cotton-picking. The town is 4km far from the Telangana border. “Another tiger attack occurred 15 days earlier in Viroor. A farmer was eliminated. The forest personnel established cam traps to track the tiger motion,” he stated. The tiger dragged the body of the farmer some 15 meters inside the field after eliminating him. Employees selecting cotton in the exact same field heard the holler of the tiger. Both motion of tigers and their number have actually increased on the borders of Telangana and Maharashtra in current times. These tigers are getting in towns on either side of Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve and Tipeshwar Tiger Reserve. Forest personnel discovered the carcass of 4 adult cubs in the Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve on December 4. The reason for their death was unclear. It is thought that the tiger that eliminated the farmer in Wankidi on the Telangana border was the exact same that eliminated the farmer on the Maharashtra border. There are rumours a couple of tigers have actually ended up being man-eaters and are actively moving along the state borders and assaulting human beings, primarily the farmers operating in the cotton fields as this is the cotton-picking season. Forest guard Sumedh Sinde of Viroor forest variety in Maharashtra stated the tiger that assaulted the farmer in Anandguda was not a man-eater and the pug marks of tigers associated with the Khanapur and Anandguda events did not match. He stated the Maharashtra federal government has actually increased the settlement to Rs 20 lakh from Rs 15 lakh to households of those eliminated in tiger attacks. This choice was taken after Sudhir Mungantiwar organized the state forest ministry. The Telangana federal government is providing just Rs 5 lakh as payment to such households. …
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