<i> Tiger caught alive, set free in forest</i>
Forest staff yesterday caught alive and released to the Sundarbans the tiger that had entered Munshiganj union in Shyamnagar upazila of Satkhira district in search of food on Saturday evening.
Panicked to see a tiger that entered the area after crossing the River Malancha at about 8:00pm on Saturday night, people of Kadamtala area kept themselves indoors for safety.
Informed, the forest guards of Kadamtala, Chunkuri and Tengrakhali forest outposts under Satkhira Range in the Sundarbans led by Chunkuri forest station officer Atique Hossain reached the spot.
After a long search, they traced the tiger in the garden of Suren Master at Harinagar Sadhupara village of the union and caught the ferocious animal alive with the help of a tranquilliser gun at about 1:30am yesterday, Atique Hossain said.
Later the forest staff set the tiger free in the Sudarbans.
The tiger is lucky enough as it did not have to meet the fate of several other tigers that were killed by villagers during the last couple of years.
"For want of tranquilliser guns, earlier we failed to catch alive the tigers that entered the localities while villagers killed them out of panic," said Kadamtala forest station officer Syed Joynul Abedin.
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