Monday, 17 May 2021 | PNS | Haldwani
Fear has spread among the locals after a man was killed by a tiger in the Gaulapar area here on Sunday. Sixty year old Chanar Singh had gone as usual to leave his cattle to graze in the jungles of Pratappur in Kishanpur range in the morning. When he went along with two other men to get the cattle back at about 3 PM, a tiger attacked and killed him without his two friends coming to know of it.
The two men, Suresh Singh and Jeevan Singh search for him for about half an hour. Finally they found his body in the bushes with injuries sustained in the attack of the big cat. The duo informed the villagers, who in turn informed the police and the forest department about the incident. On reaching the site the police and forest department personnel took possession of the body and sent it for post mortem examination. The sub divisional forest officer Dhruv Singh Martoliya informed that the man had been killed in an area shared by the Haldwani forest division and Terai east forest division. The forest department team has been put on alert following the incident. At the same time, the local villagers have been asked to desist from venturing into the forest area.
The incident of a man being killed by a big cat has once again spread an atmosphere of fear in the area. According to the locals, they have been facing threat to their safety due to the movement of the big cat in the area for some time now. Prakash Singh Bisht of Devbhumi Seva Sanstha said that the department should take necessary steps to ensure the safety of the locals.
