New Delhi: A joint team of the Special Tiger Protection Force and Rapid Rescue Team have launched a hunt for a tiger that has killed 15 people in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli.
"We walk around 40 km every day in search of the tiger but we are yet to identify it," a team member told ANI.
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Dilip Kaushik, a member of the Special Tiger Protection Force in Gadchiroli, said the continuous rainfall has made the search difficult. "Since there are many tigers in the area, it is quite challenging to identify the individual tiger," he said about the man-eater tiger. Around 150 camera traps have been set up in the area to identity that tiger, he said.
According to official data, Maharashtra accounts for one of the highest numbers of man-animal conflict cases in the country. In less than nine months, 57 people have been killed - 41 by tigers, 11 by leopards, four by wild boars and one by an elephant. Most of these cases were reported from Chandrapur and Gadchiroli districts.
