An tiger was found dead in a canal abutting Mittapalle Cheruvu in Allagadda mandal of Kurnool district here on Saturday.
According to sources, local people, who noticed the animal’s carcass immediately reported the incident to the Forest Department officials. The latter, with the help of locals, recovered by body from the canal and shifted it for an autopsy.
With the nose of the animal profusely bleeding, the officials said that the animal must have died recently, and are yet to ascertain the cause of death.