Korba, There is panic among the local people due to the sighting of a tiger coming from the forest of Marwahi forest division of the neighboring district, bordering the forest of Katghora forest division of Korba district, and roaming between the forest of village Pasan and Chaitma.
Along with alerting the villagers, the Katghora Forest Division is also keeping an eye on the tiger’s activities. It is being told that last night, this tiger hunted a cattle in some area inside the forest, the picture of which was captured in the camera of the forest department. The movement of this tiger has been around Basti and Ratkhandi village between Marwahi, Pasan, Pali, Chaitma forest range. It is being told that he has also hunted a cattle at night.
He is continuously roaming between Marwahi forest range to Katghora forest range and is moving forward in this area, the video of which has also surfaced unconfirmed on social media.
On the other hand, at around 9 pm on Saturday night, the crocodile which came out of the pond and came to the roadside in Shivpur village was caught by the villagers. The said crocodile was kept tied so that it could not escape. This crocodile was handed over to the forest department team at 10 am. He was rescued by forest personnel and released safely into Kharang reservoir, Khuntaghat Ratanpur.
