Ranchi: Students of Mirgitand Primary school under Ghatshila block of Jamshedpur are armed with bow-arrow, axe and other traditional weapons to their school due to the fear of tiger in the region.
Mirgitand village, surrounded with hills from all sides has forest cover in the radius of around 8 kilometres, where there is always a threat of attack by wild animals.
People here are terrorised with the information shared by Forest officials that pugmarks of a tiger were spotted in the area.
Afraid children have now started attending classes with carrying bow-arrow and other traditional weapons.
School teachers and Principal have also started coming to the school with an axe.
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Some of the parents also surrounded the school with a bow and arrow in their hands while their children attended their classes.
The forest department is also making people aware and assuring that the department is engaged in searching the Tiger for the safety of the villagers.
Forest officials, however, are yet to locate the tiger in the region and are tracking on the pug-marks found on in the jungles.
“We are in search of the tiger as the people of the region are living in fear here. As the area comes under Dalma Forest division, this is the fact that there is a tiger in the region as half-eaten carcasses of some animals were found in the jungles,” said Forest Department official, Rajendra Dinesh Kumar.
The administration is also admitted that people definitely are terrorised by the presence of tiger in the region.
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