A team that went to install cameras to monitor tigers in the Sabiya Partnership Forest Area in Parsagarhi Municipality on Wednesday returned without installing the cameras due to fear of a tiger attack. The team, which arrived here from the National Trust for Nature Conservation Chitwan office at the request of the Division Forest Office Parsa, along with forest officials and locals, returned without installing the cameras after the tiger roared loudly in the area where the tiger was seen.

Division Forest Office Chief Manzoor Ahmed said that the team returned after a team of 20/25 people reached there at the same time and heard a loud roar from a tiger. “The team returned after seeing that it could be life-threatening to install a camera in the presence of a tiger,” Ahmed said. “Now the same team from the fund will come with equipment including darts to injure the tiger.”

He said that since elephants are also needed for dart purposes, he has already informed the Director General of the department and requested to provide elephants. He said that movement of locals has been restricted by miking in the affected area since Tuesday.

Locals have reported seeing two tigers in the area for about a month. Some have said that a mother tiger is with her cub. Since two adult tigers cannot live together, there is a possibility that the two tigers could be a mother and a cub. Ahmed said that due to the lack of food in the forest area, injured and old tigers come out of the forest area and around human settlements.

On Monday morning, Shantamaya Shrestha, 55, of Parsagarhi-3, Jhulitar, was injured in the tiger attack. Shrestha, who had gone to cut grass in the forest, was attacked by a tiger and seriously injured. Shrestha was attacked by a tiger in the Chisapani forest area of ​​the Sabiya Partnership Forest when she went to cut grass with her neighbor's women.