Chitwan, Aug. 19 -- Tigers attacked 245 people in Nepal between 2010 and 2024, killing 141 of them, with women facing a far higher risk of death than men, according to a new study published in the journal Ecology and Evolution.

Women accounted for just 85 of the attacks but 62 of the fatalities, giving them a fatality rate of more than 72 percent. Men, meanwhile, were attacked 160 times and suffered 79 deaths, putting their fatality rate at less than 50 percent.

The study also found that most attacks occurred not inside national parks but in the buffer zones and forests surrounding them, where local people regularly enter to collect firewood and fodder, graze livestock, gather other forest products and fish.

The findings come as recent...