Indian mother saves her baby by pulling his head from the mouth of a predatory tiger

An Indian woman saved herself and her 15-month-old son from the clutches of a tiger she faced with her bare hands, an official in the authorities of the central state of Madhya Pradesh said Wednesday.

Local official Sanjeev Shrivastava told AFP that a tiger believed to have strayed from the Bandhavgarh reserve pounced on Archana Choudary shortly after she left her home in the evening with her one-year-old and three-month-old.

He added that the attacking tiger was about to devour the child's head when the mother intervened at the last moment.

The tiger continued its attack on the mother and her son until a number of the villagers came to their aid after they heard the mother's screams for distress. The animal was only left and fled to the forest.

The mother had perforated lungs and cuts to her stomach.

While the young boy was injured in the head left by the animal's fangs.

Shrivastava indicated that the woman "was admitted to the hospital and has passed the danger stage and is in the process of recovering," and that "the child is in good health as well."

And the newspaper "Times of India" reported that an operation was carried out to help the tiger return to the place from which it came, and residents of the area were asked not to leave their homes at night.

All over South Asia, contacts between wild animals and humans are increasing as cities expand at the expense of forests.

About 225 people were killed in tiger attacks between 2014 and 2019 in India, according to government statistics.

In contrast, more than 200 tigers were killed between 2012 and 2018 by poachers or electrocuted, according to the data.

About 70 percent of the world's tigers live in India, and the number of these animals in the Asian country reached 2,967 in 2018.

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