A man-eating female tiger, that killed at least two persons in Nepal, has been nabbed by authorities from the Chitawan National Park.
The tiger killed two persons and critically injured another man at Gitanagar along the East-West Highway in Chitwan district, 200 km from here yesterday.
The tiger has been nabbed from the buffer zone of the Park with the help of security personnel and game scouts deployed there, said Narendra Pradhan, wildlife technician at World Wildlife Fund Nepal office.
The tiger�had�attacked one of the victims at 4 am yesterday while he was asleep in his hut and took him away towards the jungle, from where his dead body was recovered, police said.
The second man was killed while trying to rescue the first victim, a police official at Nepal Police Headquarters' Central News Room said.
Another man of the same village has sustained serious injuries in an attack by the same tiger and has been undergoing treatment at Bharatpur Medical College.
Nepal is home to 155 endangered Royale Bengal tigers as per the latest census and Chitwan, the major tiger habitat of the country, alone houses 125 tigers.
