Canning (WB) (Agencies): A
crab-catcher was killed by a tiger in West Bengal’s Sundarbans on Thursday, the
sixth such incident in the area in the last one month, a forest officer said.
The incident took place when
30-year-old Babulal Raptan and Kenaram Mondal, residents of Kumirmari village
in Sundarbans coastal police station area, took a boat to Chilmari canal of
Marichjhapi Island in the morning, he said.
As the duo was busy catching
crabs, a tiger leaped on Raptan from behind and dragged him into the forest,
the officer said.
Mondal shouted for help, to
which other crab-catchers in the area responded and they chased away the tiger
and retrieved Raptan’s body, he said.
Raptan was the sole earner of
his family of three, the officer said.
With this incident, six
crab-catchers have been killed in tiger attacks in the region in South 24
Parganas district in the last 30 days, he added. PTI
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