DEHRADUN: A 10-year-old tiger's carcass was recovered from a forested area near Corbett Tiger Reserve in Uttarakhand's Ramnagar on Saturday evening.
Forest department sources said the cause of the tiger's death would be known after a postmortem, but the carcass' condition suggests that the big cat may have died two or three days earlier.
Divisional forest officer Nishant Verma said the death appears to be natural and that a two-member team of Corbett Tiger Reserve vets would conduct the post-mortem.
Sources said six tigers have died in the reserve and surrounding area since December. Forest officials gunned down a man-eater tiger that had killed five people in the reserve's buffer zone around two weeks back.
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