Once again, panic has gripped the Moodakkolly area near Vakery under the Chethalayath forest range in the South Wayanad Forest Division in Wayanad on January 6 morning after as many as 19 pigs were killed in a suspected tiger attack.
The pigs owned by Sreenesh of Karikulathil, a farmer at Moodakkolly, were killed in a wildlife attack on Friday night.
When the farmer reached the shed to clean he noticed that many pigs were missing. A search led by the residents found pigs’ carcasses on the Irulam forest’s fringes, around 50 metres away from the farm
Though the residents claimed that they found pug marks of a tiger in the area, the Forest department officials were yet to ascertain it . The residents in the area urged the Forest department ooficials to set up a cage to capture the tiger and compensate the farmer for his loss.
