Krishna Adhikari
April 2, 2021
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A tiger kept at a holding centre of Banke National Park as escaped. The tiger to date has killed seven people.
On March 29, 2021, Chularam Tharu, 35, from Janaknagar, Geruwa rural municipality in Bardiya of western Nepal, was on his way to his paddy field to irrigate it.
It was 5 am in the morning, dark and extremely quiet. After releasing the water, he went to a nearby bush to defecate. As he neared the bush, he heard a noise. Before he could react, a royal Bengal tiger jumped from the bush behind him and attacked him.
“I yelled,” he recalls in his hospital bed. “For a moment I thought I was going to die. But, my cry was heard by the locals who came to my rescue. I’m alive thanks to that.”