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An incident of \u201caccidental firing\u201d has resulted in the death of a tiger on the outskirts of Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Two forest guards and a casual worker spotted the carcass of the male tiger at about 7.10 a.m. on June 18 in the Karuabari area on the fringes of the national park.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe carcass was found near its kill. On enquiry, it was found that the tiger died due to a bullet wound,\u201d Divisional Forest Officer Ramesh Chandra Gogoi said.<\/p>\n
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The bullet was suspected to have been fired accidentally when a team of forest guards and officials tried to scare the tiger away from a village nearby late June 17 evening, he added. The Park\u2019s Field Director, P. Sivakumar said an enquiry has been ordered into the death of the tiger although a preliminary investigation showed a forest guard fired in self-defence.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe tiger is about 10 years old and was probably not agile enough to hunt in the wild. It had killed a domestic buffalo the day before and returned to the village,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The tiger apparently pounced on the forest guards who tried to drive it back to the forest.<\/p>\n
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There have been instances of forest guards firing at some large animals across Assam\u2019s wildlife preserves to save their colleagues from being attacked.<\/p>\n
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The last tiger census had estimated Kaziranga\u2019s striped cat population at 118. The park has the highest density of tigers in the world at one per 5 sq. km.<\/p>\n
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