âTwo groups of women were going to get wood from the jungle in Kosi range when the tiger attacked the group of five to six women in which two of them were severely injured and a small girl child also received scratches on her head," said Ram Shankar Tiwari, sub-division officer of Ramnagar Forest Division.
Tiwari also said that the division was taking care of the injured. Increasing urbanisation and loss of habitat has led to a rise in man-animal conflicts. Read the full report here.
Source: DNA, Ramnagar.