4 Women Mauled to Death by Tigers in Chandrapur

The Attacks Sparked Fear and Anger Among Locals. They Staged a Protest Demanding Immediate Action to Capture the Tigers.

- Pradip Kumar Maitra

NAGPUR: Four women lost their lives in two separate tiger attacks in Chandrapur district on Saturday and Sunday. Three of the victims were killed by a single tiger while the fourth woman fell prey to another tiger in a different incident in the same district.

According to reports, three women were mauled to death and another seriously injured by a tiger in a single attack on Saturday afternoon. The dismembered bodies were discovered in the forest near Mendha-Mal village, located in the Sindewahi Forest Range, approximately 200 km from Nagpur.

Wildlife experts believe this is the first documented case in the region where a single tiger has claimed three human lives and injured another in one attack.