Lakhimpur Kheri, June 23 -- Residents of Ramnagar Kalan and several nearby villages, located along the Sharda river in Majhgain range of Dudhwa buffer zone woke up on Tuesday morning to witness the errant big cat, tranquilised and encaged. The big cat had allegedly killed three persons in the area since May 4 - two of them in Ramnagar Kalan.

Early on Tuesday morning, when the Dudhwa veterinarian Dr Daya Shankar tranquilised a tigress, which led to its capture, the entire Dudhwa buffer zone monitoring team including range officer Ankit Kumar Singh, a dozen foresters and forest guards heaved a collective sigh of relief on a week-long successful operation.

The tigress had unleashed terror in Ramnagar area since May 4, when it had attacked ...