Sundarbans Bengal Tiger skin seized, 3 held
Three poachers have been held with the skin of an enormous Bengal Tiger of the Sundarbans from Bagerhat’s Morelganj upazila, Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) claimed today.
Rab-8 held the three along with the 10-feet-long tiger skin and several pieces of the animal in a crackdown, Captain Hasibul Haque, spokesperson of Rab-8, told The Daily Star.
The held were Delwar Sheikh, 34, Nuruzzaman Sheikh, 52, and Kabir Hawladar, 38, - all members of a racket involved in poaching and trafficking the skin and flesh of tigers and deers hunted from the Sundarbans, the Rab official said.
“The tiger skin is 10 feet long and 4 feet wide. It was a big tiger. Also, 25 pieces of the animal – its head, tail and other body parts – were seized from them,” he added.
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