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Guards rescue tigress from date palm tree
The tigress perched herself in the tree to escape a group of villagers chasing her and it took nearly 14 hours to tranquilise, then catch, her on Monday.
- AP
- Published: 00:53 February 20, 2008
Kolkata: Forest guards tranquilised then rescued a pregnant tigress from a date palm tree hours after it strayed into a village near the Sunderbans Tiger Reserve in eastern India, an official said yesterday.
The tigress perched herself in the tree to escape a group of villagers chasing her and it took nearly 14 hours to tranquilise, then catch, her on Monday, said Kanti Ganguly, Sunderbans affairs minister of West Bengal state.
The tigress suffered minor injuries from stones and burning sticks the frightened villagers threw at her in Deulbari, about 250km south of Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal state, Ganguly said.
After guards nursed her wounds they took the tigress in a boat and released her deep inside the mangrove reserve yesterday, said Atanu Raha, the state's chief conservator of forest.
"Although the tigress received some injuries while being tranquilised and caught, she was treated and found fit to be released in the reserve area," Raha said.
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