Canning (WB), Apr 20 (PTI) In a fresh incident of man-animal conflict, a tiger killed a honey collector at Sunderbans in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district, forest officials said.
The incident happened yesterday at Harinbhanga forest, a core area of the Sunderbans, when the honey collector along with five others were about to board a boat on Goashaba river.
The tiger pounced on the man and dragged him inside the forest, they said.
The six had taken permission from the forest department to venture into the core area between April 15 and May 15 -- the honey collecting season, the officials said.
Search is on to recover the victim's body, they said.
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