LAKHIMPUR KHERI, March 8 -- Within a week of the tragic death of a 14-year-old boy in a leopard attack in the north Nighasan range of the Dudhwa buffer zone on March 2, a 45-year-old farmer was killed in a tiger attack on Friday night in the Sampurnanagar forest range of the Dudhwa buffer zone.

He was identified as Pragat Singh of Chima Farm.

His partially eaten body was recovered from a sugarcane field near his farmhouse on Saturday morning.

Dudhwa buffer zone Deputy Field Director Kirti Chaudhary confirmed the death in a tiger attack, stating that reported tiger movements in the area and the nature of the injuries indicated a tiger was involved. She said the body had been sent for postmortem examination and compensation, as per rules...