Indian authorities pursue a tiger that has eaten eight people
Indian authorities are pursuing a tiger that ate a person the day before yesterday, its eighth victim.
The tiger attacked an old man from a town in Khambada district (about 660 kilometers from Bombay) who was working to bring some firewood for heating, so he tore it to pieces and killed him.
"We tried to catch the tiger using sedative arrows, but we couldn't," said the Maharashtrian Forest Management Authority official N.R Pravin.
About 225 people were killed in India between 2014 and 2019 as a result of tiger attacks, according to police statistics.
India is home to about 70 percent of all tigers in the world.
The government indicated that the number of tigers increased to 2,967 in 2018, after it had decreased to 1,411 in 2006.
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