M Humayun Kabir: At least 50 tigers were beaten to death in the areas adjacent to the Sundarbans in the last 18 years.
During the same period, a total of 332 people were killed by the big cats as they entered localities in search of food.
The last incident of killing a tiger was reported in January this year in east Sundarban’s Gulishakhali village near Jiudhara station where officials at the Forest Department witnessed the incident as silent spectators. While talking to UNB over the matter, Prof AK Fazlul Haque of Forestry and Wood Technology department at Khulna University said that lack of food in the Sundarbans is forcing tigers to look for food elsewhere.