Briefs

Tiger Cub Knocked Dead On Tracks Along Odisha’s Malkangiri Border

Malkangiri: A tiger cub died after coming under the wheels of a goods train near  Rajnandgaon district, along the Odisha-Chhattisgarh border, on Tuesday.

According to sources, the one-year-old cub was hit by the train after its feet got stuck in the railway tracks passing through Gandia Reserve Forest.

The incident took place while a tigress was crossing the tracks with its three cubs.

On being informed, Forest department officials reached the spot and sent the carcass for postmortem.