India, July 27 -- Two tigers were found dead in the reserved forest area of the Chhakata range under Uttarakhand's Haldwani forest division, forest officials said.

According to Haldwani forest division's divisional forest officer (DFO) Kundan Kumar, patrolling staff spotted the carcasses of the two tigers at Northern Khera beat in the Chhakata range of Nainital district on Sunday evening.

"Prima facie, it seems the big cats died after sustaining severe injuries during an inter-tiger conflict," he said.

DFO Kumar said the postmortems of both tigers were conducted in accordance with the standard operating procedures prescribed by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA).

The examinations were carried out in the presence of the D...