A man-eating tiger that could have killed 13 people shot after a two-year hunt

A hungry tiger of human flesh was shot in India after a major two-year hunt, the BBC reported.

It is thought that the tiger woman has killed 13 people since 2016, including three in the month of August. Cameras, traps and even perfume were used for the animal hunt, which had left residents of the state of Maharashtra fear for their lives.

The tiger and its youth killed three people near the town of Pandharkawada in Yavatmal district in August. The Cubs were nine months old, according to the BBC.

Hundreds of forest guards participated in the T-1 hunt and efforts intensified after the August massacres. A drone looking for warmth, more than a hundred cameras and even specially trained elephants searched for the deadly creature.

A bullet finally ended the murderous frenzy of the tiger on Friday night, after a calming dart failed to slow the animal enough to capture him. The hunters claimed to have been forced to shoot the tiger, called T-1, when she roared and charged, the Bornw York Times reported.

Villagers nearby, The temperature said, celebrated the death of animals with firecrackers, candies and hand pumps.

Farmers had already been warned to travel in groups, to return home earlier and not to defecate in the fields, a common practice in the area, the BBC reported.

But not everyone is enthusiastic about the eventual success of the hunt. "It's a cold-blooded murder," said Jerryl Banait, an animal rights advocate who went to the Supreme Court of India to try to convince authorities to capture the tiger, not to kill him, according to the newspaper. the Time.

"It's a state-sponsored, legalized hunt for a voiceless, voiceless tiger mother," said nature conservation activist and dentist Sarita Subramaniam. "She was doing what any mother would do … she was just trying to defend her little ones and her territory."

But the hunters defended their decision to kill the tiger. "We would have lost some men if we tried to save her," said Nawab Shafath Ali Khan, father of the hunter who killed T-1.

"Now our lives will be normal again," said Hidayat Khan, a resident of an area where T-1 lost several lives. The temperature. "We can go to our fields and do our work."

But the two little T-1s, he added, are still there.