A fisherman was mauled to death by an adult Royal Bengal Tiger at Pirkhali forest in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district Wednesday, the police said.
The incident took place at Bally-Satyanarayanpur under Gosaba area in the Sundarbans, where a group of three fishermen had gone to catch crabs.
Early Wednesday morning, the tiger attacked 42-year-old Madhu Mondal at Pirkhali forest injuring him severely.
When companions of Mondal chased the Tiger, it left the injured Mondal and disappeared in the jungle.
Mondal was rushed to nearby Gosaba hospital, where doctors declared him 'dead', the police said.
In another incident, two girls drowned in a pond at Sitagachi village in the district Wednesday, police said.
The two girls had gone to the pond for a bath and slipped and drowned, they said.
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