A two-year-old female tiger was killed after being run over by a speeding car on Thursday night in Maharashtra’s Gondia district, forest officials said.
The female tiger was identified as a two-year- old cub of the T-14 tigress belonging to the Nagzira National Park of Maharashtra.
The incident occurred on Thursday at around 10:30 pm when a speeding Creta car hit the female tiger while it was crossing the Gondia- Kohamara highway in the Murdoli forest area, the forest officials added.
Following the accident, a rescue operation was launched for the big cat by a forest team under Pramod Panchbhai, deputy conservator of forest of Gondia division, in the early hours of Friday and it was rescued at 7:30 am.
However, the injured female tiger later succumbed to injuries while being taken to Nagpur for treatment.
Later, the body of the tiger was sent for post- mortem which will be carried out as per the standard operating procedure of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) at the wildlife rescue centre in Nagpur.