Tiger body in river...
from the pages of THE TELEGRAPH newspaper (Calcutta edition,7th October Indian)
Calcutta, Oct. 6: Tourists cruising down a Sunderban river hoping for a glimpse of a Bengal Tiger saw one today, but it was dead. The tiger’s body was found floating in the Bidya in Gosaba, some 260km south of Calcutta.
The tourists, on a motorized launch, alerted the crew who called officials at the forest department camp at Dobanki, 50km away.
At Sunderbans Tiger Reserve team arrived in about three hours and took away the “full-grown male” for post-mortem. Officials said the place where the carcass was found was at least 100km from human habitat.
“We haven’t found any external injury marks. The post-mortem will reveal whether it was poisoned by poachers or it died of some disease,” an official said. Reserve director Neeraj Singhal could not recall another instance of a dead tiger floating on a river.