A 40-year-old man was mauled to death by a tiger in <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/search/Maharashtra-all" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Maharashtra</a>`s Bhandara district on Friday morning, a <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/search/forest-all" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">forest</a> department official said.
Tejram Kar had gone to his paddy field in Kanhalgaon in Lakhandar tehsil at around 9:30am when the incident took place, forest department official Roshan Rathod said.
His body was recovered some 500 metres away from the field by a team of forest and police personnel, Rathod added.
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"We suspect the tiger might be CT-1, which had killed a man on September 21. Camera traps have been installed and three teams have been formed to trap the animal," he said.
Local forest officials said CT-1 is suspected of having killed 11 persons between January and September this year and orders to capture it post tranquilisation have been issued by higher authorities.
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Camera traps have been installed and three teams have been formed to trap the animal, a forest official said

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