Search for man-eating tiger in border areas continues

PANAJI: The state forest department is keeping watch in border areas and has also alerted villagers in the region, as a tiger released in Bhimgad wildlife sanctuary is believed to have killed a young woman in Khanapur, Karnataka.
While Karnataka officials are engaged in a search of the big cat from Chikmagalur released in the jungle of Talewadi in Khanapur taluk, their counterparts in Goa have also initiated efforts to keep vigil on the familiar tiger trails.Goa has one or two big cats and the evidence through a camera trap was taken sometime back. There is no report of these two bigs cats attacking humans in the region.
But sources said that the female, which had attacked and killed a woman in Chikmagalur has not entered Goa so far.
The villagers from Mudgai, a village near Jamboti, near Goa's border have claimed that the tiger had killed Anjana Appana Hanbar on December 24.
Bhimgad wildlife sanctuary in Karnataka is contiguous to Mhadei wildlife sanctuary in Goa and forms a solid corridor for wild life along with other protected areas of both states.