Indian villagers up in arms after tiger eats 5 people

Wu Qiang
19 February 2009
Xinhua News Agency

NEW DELHI, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- Hundreds of Indian villagers in the northern Uttar Pradesh state Thursday seized arms from local forest officials after the latter failed to catch a man-eating tiger that have eaten five people recently, reported the local Indo-Asian News Service.

Residents of Kaanp-Tanda village which is close to the Dudhwa wildlife park snatched the rifles of forest officials and threatened to attack them after the tiger killed a 55-year-old man early Thursday morning, the fifth victim of the big cat, said the report.