Chandrapur, July 13 (UNI) Two persons were killed in tiger attack in separate incidents in Maharashtra’s Chandrapur district in the last two days, a senior forest official told UNI on Thursday.
According to the official first incident occurred on Wednesday when Devta Jiwan Chanfane(47) was killed by tiger on the spot, near Akapur village in Nagbhid tehsil of Brahmapuri forest division when she went to her farm for work.
The second incident took place on Tuesday when a farmer Ishwar Govindrao Kumbhare (40) was killed in a tiger attack at Savargaon in Nagbhid tehsil when he and his wife went to a farm for work, said the official.
After being alerted, forest officials reached the spot and the bodies were sent to hospital for postmortem.
The forest department gave an immediate compensation of Rs 25,000 to the families of both the victims, the official said.
This year, 12 people have so far lost their lives in tiger attack in the district.
