According to Gadchiroli DCF S R Kumarswamy, there are nine tigers in his division, five of them cubs. “The two human deaths in the past two months are by two different tigers,” he said.
Already, two tiger deaths, one stated to be natural and the other in a territorial fight, have been recorded in Gadchiroli in January and June this year. Back in 2017, a tigress had to be captured in Wadsa division after it had killed two persons.
Alapalli division has only two transient tigers. “They were not seen over the past about eight months. But recently, they have come back and have killed cattle,” said Alapalli DFC Chandrakant Tambe. All three divisions have been recording growing number of cattle kills, as revealed by the three DCFs.