<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Indian wildlife authorities on Thursday caught a tiger blamed for killing 13 people over 10 months, an official said.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Named “Conflict Tiger,” or “CT-1,” the five-year-old male was tranquilized and caught nearly a week after officials declared it a threat to humans and authorized its capture.</div><div><br></div><div>The big cat has been blamed for killing 13 people in remote, forested parts of the western state of Maharashtra since last December, including two in one day.</div><div><br></div><div>Its most recent killing was last month.</div><div>“We have been trailing the tiger for a while and it was finally captured inside the forest,” wildlife official Kishor Mankar told AFP.</div><div><br></div><div>Mankar said all the victims were attacked inside the forest area, where some of them lived or had entered to collect firewood.</div><div>The tiger has been moved to the nearby Nagpur region and is being monitored by vets before a decision is taken about its future, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>It will either be released or remain in captivity.</div><div><br></div><div>CT-1 is was far from being India’s only troublesome tiger.</div><div>On Saturday police shot dead another tiger, which had killed nine people in the eastern state of Bihar, in a major operation involving 200 people including trackers on elephants.</div><div><br></div><div>And students at a university in the central state of Madhya Pradesh have been told to stay indoors after dark, because of a tiger on the prowl around campus.</div><div><br></div><div>There has been an increase in man-animal conflict in parts of India, which conservationists blame on the rapid expansion of human settlements around forests and key wildlife corridors for animals such as elephants and tigers.</div><div><br></div><div>Nearly 100 people were killed in tiger attacks between 2019 and 2021 in India, according to government figures.</div><div><br></div><div>More than 200 tigers were killed by poachers or electrocution between 2012 and 2018, the data showed.</div><div><br></div><div>India is home to around 70 percent of the world’s wild tigers, with a population estimated at 2,967 in 2018. - AFP</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>