A tiger killed three people in Bangladesh before villagers trapped the animal and beat it to death today, police
said.
The tiger entered the village last night, killing the three people, then continued to roam the settlement until panicked villagers regrouped and lured it into a trap.
The incident occurred at a remote village near the Sundarbans mangrove forests, 400 kilometres southwest of the capital Dhaka.
The Sundarbans is a UNESCO World Heritage site and home to the Royal Bengal tigers.
"The angry villagers beat the tiger to death," a forest official said. "It was not possible to save it and send it back to the forests as the people were agitated beyond control."
In March tigers killed six people in villages around the Sundarbans.
Forest officials said tigers are probably being forced to hunt outside the Sundarbans because of a scarcity of food after Cyclone Sidr ravaged large parts of the mangrove forests in November last year.
At least 60 per cent of the 6,000 sq km mangrove forests are in Bangladesh, home to more than 400 Royal Bengal tigers.