Tigress found dead near Seoni

SEONI (MP): A tigress was found dead at Mirchiwani village in forest, near here.

"The feline was found dead yesterday and the tigress body after postmortem has been disposed off on Friday, divisional forest officer (DFO) P S Champawat said.

He said that the autopsy report was awaited, adding viscera of the stripped animal had been sent to laboratory in Sagar.

Champawat said that the tigress was around six-year-old and no injury was found on her body. About the cause of the death, the DFO said that it will be known after the viscera report in a week-time.

The tigress had killed a cow and calf near Mirchiwani some time back, forest department sources said.

The tigress might have been poisioned by some villagers in an act of vengeance, they suspected.