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Indian villagers up in arms after tiger eats 5 people
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-02-20 13:43
NEW DELHI -- Hundreds of Indian villagers in the northern Uttar Pradesh state Thursday seized arms from local forest officials after the latter failed to catch a man-eating tiger that have eaten five people recently, reported the local Indo-Asian News Service.

Residents of Kaanp-Tanda village which is close to the Dudhwa wildlife park snatched the rifles of forest officials and threatened to attack them after the tiger killed a 55-year-old man early Thursday morning, the fifth victim of the big cat, said the report.

Dudhwa is the country's second largest tiger reserve and has 106 tigers. The man-eater strayed out of the sanctuary limits and has been preying on humans for more than a month, said the report.