Tiger kills girl.

Dehra Dun, June 24 (UNI) A tiger believed to be a man-eater attacked a 12 year old girl and killed her at Jhalpadi village in Pauri district on Friday.

According to DFO Pauri, Rashmi, a resident of Jhalpadi village was going to the fields with her mother in the evening when the tiger attacked and mauled her badly. The shouting of villagers forced the tiger todrop the girl after dragging her for 100 metres.

She was immediately rushed to the District Hospital but died on the way.

It was the third incidence of animal attack on a human in four months in the locality. On May 31 Sapna was killed by a tiger, Again in March a boy was killed. Beside several villagers were attacked in the same locality. Forest Officials had killed a tiger on June 6 taking it a man-eater.

However villagers now believe that Forest Officials killed the wrong tiger. Villagers anguished by the fresh incidence of tiger attack staged a demonstration at Garhwal Mandal Commissioner's Office demanding the execution of the man-eater.

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