26 July 2019



Indian police have arrested four people after a mob of villagers brutally beat to death a tiger that had attacked local people.

Mobile phone footage of the incident went viral on social media, and officials said one of nine people injured by the animal earlier had died in hospital.

It is the latest in a growing number of animal-human encounters in India, which experts blame on shrinking habitats and food shortages for wildlife.

The tiger attacked people after straying out of the Pilibhit tiger reserve in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, district magistrate Vaibhav Srivastava told AFP.

Dozens of armed people surrounded the animal after it entered their village, chased it and bludgeoned it to death with wooden batons and spears, he said.

Thirty-three people were wanted over the killing of the tiger and four had been arrested so far, the magistrate added, saying the villagers were scared and angry after the attacks on humans.

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