Order issued to shoot and kill elusive man-eating tiger in Tamil Nadu

After an elusive man-eating tiger in Tamil Nadu killed its fourth victim in the span of a few days, the Chief Conservator of Forests Sekhar Kumar Niraj issued orders to shoot it dead immediately.

With the elusive man-eating tiger killing one more person on Friday, the fourth in recent days, the Chief Conservator of Forests Sekhar Kumar Niraj issued orders to shoot it dead immediately.

After the tiger, which had killed a shepherd in an estate near Gudalur, about 80 km from here, on Friday last, the forest department started search operations to trap the feline by tranquilising it.