Residents of Ghuiyabari, Batule, Jyamire, Ambas, Ryang, Bherikhuri, and Haukhola around Parseni are in panic after a tiger ate a local ox on Saturday and was seen again near the settlement.
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Locals are in shock after 42-year-old Dhansari Rawat, who went to the forest near her home to collect grass and firewood, was attacked by a tiger on Friday in Parseni, Kalimati Rural Municipality-7, Salyan.
The residents of Ghuiyabari, Batule, Jyamire, Ambas, Ryang, Bherikhuri, and Haukhola near Parseni are in panic after the tiger ate a local cow on Saturday and was seen again near the settlement.
Due to the fear of the tiger, locals have not been able to go to the forest to cut grass. After the army team deployed in Banke National Park requested them not to leave their homes unnecessarily, locals have stopped riding motorcycles. Due to this, the sick are facing even more problems.
The locals have demanded that the ward residents be shifted to a safer place if the tiger entering the settlement cannot be managed. In the past, it used to enter the settlement at night and attack livestock, but after killing a person on Friday, it became very unsafe, said Himal Pun of Ghuiyabari, Kalimati-7.
He said that when the government gives more importance to tigers than lives, people have started having to leave their homes and properties and be displaced. ‘The schools are closed now because the municipality has taken winter vacation. There is no problem as children do not have to walk through the forest to go to school.’ Local Motilal Rawat said.
Ward Chairman Mikralal Rijal of Kalimati-7 said that four people have died in the border area of Surkhet and Salyan in the past two years due to tiger attacks.
Chairman Rijal informed that school-going girls are at greater risk due to the fear of tigers. He said that about 200 families have migrated from this ward, which has 700 families, in the last few years.
