Tiger kills woman, injures two in Uttar Pradesh’s Pilibhit

The two tigers attacked the peasants in separate incidents, killed a woman and wounded two people in three hours in the Pylibhit Region on Thursday, July 17, 2025. The locals referring to inactivity, organized a protest in front of the administration trying to take custody of the body for a post -death exam. The villagers claimed that despite the human-animal conflict and the views of the tigers, the authorities could not provide security to people.

In the village of Bithra Mandaria, 50 -year -old Trishna was killed by a tiger. The semi -eaten body was recovered from a sugar cane area. Half an hour later, 20 -year -old Nilesh was attacked by Tiger. The wounded boy was rescued after fighting a bar with his friend tiger. Kaplan was injured in another local village working in agricultural land. Both injured are being treated in a state hospital. Regional Magistrates of Magistrates Gyanendra Singh, including the upper regional officials visited the affected areas and calmed the locals.

Department of Forestry Officer Bharat Kumar, Tiger’s arrest after the official approval after a trained team was deployed, he said. Regional officials directed forest officials to intensify the supervision and distribute expert teams to monitor the tigers. This is the seventh Tiger attack in the Pilibhit region since April 2025. On July 15, a farmer was barely killed by a tiger from his hut when he went to control the sugar cane crop in the village of Phulhar in the village of Pilibhit Tiger Reserve (PTR).

The areas near Pilibhit Tiger Reserve in the Pilibhit region often witness the human-animal conflict. The northern edge of the reserve is located on the Indo-Nepal border, while the southern border is marked by Sharada and the Khakra River. A study by the Indian Wildlife Institute (WII) shows that the Dudhwa-Pilibhit population has high protection value as it represents the only tiger population with ecological and behavioral adaptations specific to the Tarai region of the tiger region.