The big cat had terrorised locals on the fringes of the Valmiki Tiger Reserve in Champaran in eastern India, killing at least six people in the past month including a woman and her eight-year-old son on Saturday.
NEW DELHI - Indian police have shot dead a tiger dubbed the "Man-eater of Champaran" that killed at least nine people, in a major operation involving 200 people including trackers on elephants, officials said Sunday.
With local villagers beating tin containers, it took about six hours for the team -- with eight shooters and about 200 forest department officials -- to complete the operation, Kumar said. But "despite the lurking fear of tiger, it was not possible for us to confine ourselves in our homes as we needed to feed our cattle," Ram Kisun Yadav, a local villager told the Hindustan Times newspaper.
Nearly 225 people were killed in tiger attacks between 2014 and 2019 in India, according to government figures.
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