Bengal Tigers Kill 5 in Bangladesh Forest
Reuters
DHAKA, Bangladesh —
Royal Bengal tigers in Bangladesh’s Sundarbans region have killed five people in the past three days, officials said Monday.
Prowling tigers killed the five while they were fishing deep inside the tidal forest region on the Bay of Bengal, an official in Satkhira district told reporters.
On Saturday night, two tigers entered a village near the forest, injured four sleeping villagers and took two cows, he said.
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