Mandla (MP):
The carcass of a tiger, who is suspected to have died of electrocution, was found at Madhya Pradesh’s Kanha Tiger Reserve, a forest official said on Thursday.
A patrolling team of the forest department found the one-week-old carcass in Mangli beat under Motinala buffer zone of the reserve on Wednesday evening, KTR’s field director L Krishnamurthy said.
Wildlife veterinarians suspect that the tiger may have died due to electrocution, an official said.
A post-mortem was conducted and the big cat was cremated on Thursday, as per the protocol of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), he added.
