The forest department officials intensified the work of installing 15 sophisticated automatic camera traps to monitor the tiger that killed a tribal woman at Mudumalai Theppakadu in the Nilgiris district.
The Nilgiris: The Forest Department officials intensified surveillance by installing 15 camera traps in various locations to monitor the movement of man-eater tiger, which killed a woman in Theppakadu recently.
In a shocking incident, a tiger attacked and killed a tribal woman Mari in the Theppakadu area In Mudumalai Tiger Reserve of the Nilgiris district a few days back.
The woman was mauled by the tiger which dragged her body into a bush to eat her hands and legs.
The woman’s body was found in the bushes adjacent to the tribal residential areas yesterday and sent for postmortem to Ooty Government Hospital, and later handed over the kins.
More than 200 tribal people fromTheppakadu had staged a road roko yesterday demanding immediate capture of the tiger.
The Mudumalai tiger reserve officials and the Police, who held talks with them, assured them that they would take immediate steps to capture the tiger and announced a compensation of Rs 5 lakh to the family of the deceased woman, following which, the road blockade was given up.