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By India Today News Desk: A forest department team of Uttarakhand has tranquilised a tiger weeks after a person’s body was found mauled by the big cat.
Panic gripped the entire village of Dalla in Uttarakhand’s Rikhnikhal on April 13 when the first body with deep wounds was found. Two days later, a 72-year-old also met the same fate in the Simli village of the Dhumakot tehsil, which put the authorities on alert.
Both the bodies were recovered from the bushes.
According to the Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) Swapnil Anirudh, the tranquilised tiger is believed to be one and a half years old. He said the tiger would be translocated to Corbett National Park’s rescue centre.
The authorities suspect the presence of two more tigers in the area, and a search operation is in full swing.
A night curfew was invoked in Pauri by the district magistrate, and all schools within the ten-kilometre ambit of the incidents were shut till Wednesday. The extension of prohibitory measures is yet to be announced by the authorities. The officials also advised the locals not to leave houses alone.
A team from Kalagarh Tiger Reserve, Lansdowne forest division and Garhwal forest division, along with state police personnel and home guards, are combing the area to locate the remaining two tigers.
(With input from Vikas Verma)
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