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Chinese man jailed for tiger shooting
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-12-22 07:37
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KUNMING: A man was jailed for 12 years Monday for shooting to death an Indo-Chinese tiger in southwest China's Yunnan Province, a local court said.
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The villager was convicted of shooting to death the protected rare animal and illegal gun possession.
He shot to death what he claimed an "unspecified animal" after dark while in a hunt with Gao Zuqiao for a kind of frog in the Xishuangbanna national nature reserve in February. The two fled the scene after learning the animal was a tiger.
However, Gao and six other villagers found and dismembered the tiger's body the next day for eating, the court said.
Gao was jailed for four years and ordered to pay a fine of 20,000 yuan.
Three of the six other villagers were each given a jail term of three years but with a four-year reprieve and fined 10,000 yuan.
Kang surrendered to police in June and police seized two guns at his home, the court said.
