BANGLADESH NEWS
A Bengal Tiger that entered locality in Shyamnagar upazila of Satkhira Sunday and stayed there for about 30 hours finally went back to the Sundarbans Monday morning.
The tiger returned to the wild at around 9:30am following continued efforts including firing blank shots by forest department officials, said a press release of Wildlife Trust of Bangladesh.
Earlier, the tiger became weak after passing two days without any food at Golakhali in the upazila, said Toufiqul Islam, a forest official of Satkhira, informed a Satkhira correspondent.
The people of Golakhali, Kalinchi and Tengrakhali areas had been passing time with great anxiety due to the presence of the tiger in their locality.
Most of them preferred to stay inside homes in fear of the tiger.
It was suspected that the male tiger is sick.
Khokon Gazi and Haren Mondol, two locals of Golakhali, first saw the tiger standing at their shrimp enclosure around 6:00am Sunday.
On information, a team of forest department and Tiger Response Team rushed to the spot around 8:00am and blasted over 100 crackers and fired 25 blank shots to send it back to forest.
As the members of forest department failed to send the tiger back to Sundarbans, they surrounded the tiger with a net enclosure, resisting it from entering the village.
The villagers earlier complained that the forest department personnel had not acted properly to send the tiger back to the forest.
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