Adilabad: The sighting of a tiger has been creating panic among residents of Thamsi (K) village and some other villages in Bheempur mandal on the borders of Telangana and Maharashtra for the past days. v It had already killed two cattle recently.
Sources said that the residents of Thamsi (K) and Bheempur mandal were frightened over their safety and their cattle following the prowling of the tiger for over a fortnight. “We are spending sleepless nights due to the presence of the wild animal in the forest. Two cattle have already been killed by the carnivore,” Kunarapu Vinod Yadav told ‘Telangana Today.’
Authorities of Forest department said that the tiger is from the Tippeshwar Tiger Reserve (TTR) of Yavatmal district in the neighbouring Maharashtra district entered the forests of Bheempur by crossing river Penganga and made the woods it’s home for quite some time now. They suggested that the locals need not to be panicked over the movement of the big cat which does not harm humans. They requested rural folks not to step into the forest.
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It is learnt that tigers inhabiting the TTR and Tadoba Andheri Tiger Reserve of Maharashtra often migrate to the forest in Adilabad district in search of new territory which is bestowed with rich prey base and drinking water sources. The tigers sometimes resort to killing cattle but are not known to killing human beings.