{"id":158800,"date":"2021-05-19T01:24:56","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T19:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=158800"},"modified":"2021-05-19T01:24:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T19:54:56","slug":"tigress-kills-zoo-attendant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/05\/19\/tigress-kills-zoo-attendant\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigress kills zoo attendant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 18 May:<\/strong> A 35-year-old zoo attendant died at the biological park (Itanagar zoo) here after being mauled by a Royal Bengal tigress on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The deceased has been identified as Poulash Karmakar, a native of Dhekiajuli in Assam&#8217;s Lakhimpur district.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zoo curator Raya Flago said the incident occurred at 2:30 pm on Tuesday, when the zoo attendant entered the tigress&#8217; cage to clean the pond water.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I was informed of the incident by one of our animal attendants. When I reached the zoo along with a doctor and other staff, Karmakar was already dead. He was found bleeding from the face,&#8221; Flago said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;There are three gates that lead to the cage, and all of them had been left open. We are assuming that this led to the tigress attacking the zoo attendant,&#8221; Flago said, adding that a police investigation has been launched into the case.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">SDPO Kamdam Sikom said that a case of unnatural death has been lodged at the Itanagar police station and the body of the deceased has been sent for postmortem to RK Mission Hospital.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We did not see anything suspicious, and it seems to be a case of negligence, as per preliminary investigation,&#8221; the SDPO said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sikom said the body of the deceased would be handed over to his family members after the postmortem.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The name of the tigress that mauled Karmakar is Chippi, and she is around 8 years old.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chippi had been rescued as an orphan, along with Ipra, when they were around eight months old from Anini in Dibang Valley district.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They were shifted to the biological park in Itanagar in 2013-14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 18 May: A 35-year-old zoo attendant died at the biological park (Itanagar zoo) here after being mauled by a Royal Bengal tigress on Tuesday. The deceased has been identified as Poulash Karmakar, a native of Dhekiajuli in Assam&#8217;s Lakhimpur district. Zoo curator Raya Flago said the incident occurred at 2:30 pm on Tuesday, when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-158800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}