LUCKNOW/JAIPUR: Even as forest officials continued to comb fields and villages around Mathura in search of the elusive tiger that has strayed into the area, another tiger scare emerged. A big cat — this one said to be a maneater — has been hiding in a sugarcane field in Lakhua village of Hardoi district, some 120km from Lucknow.
On Wednesday, Hardoi officials were on the job trying to tranquillize the tiger, which, according to forest officials, has killed eight humans in Pilibhit and Shahjahanpur districts since May. ''It is currently hiding in a sugarcane field,'' said R K Tripathi, DFO, Hardoi. The combing operations were on in Lakhua village, Hardoi.
The big cat has been on the run since May 3 when it claimed its first human kill. The orders to tranquillize and trap the tiger were given by chief wildlife warden of UP this month after resentment among locals ran high in Shahjahanpur and Deoria over eight human killings. The tiger had entered Kheri and injured a man there before it shifted location to Hardoi.
Meanwhile, forest officials from Rajasthan and UP continue to comb the Mathura refinery region in search of the tiger that strayed from Ranthambore National Park
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