Tiger escapes Khaoyai National park, kills three villagers

By PAWINEE TIAMKOAKGRUAD

Reporter – The Mirror

March 10, 2012

NAKHONRACHASRIMA,Thailand – Yesterday in the morning Khaoyai National park officer announced that there was a tiger escaped from the forest, it caused three villagers were bitten and killed.

Around 5 a.m. policemen were informed that three villagers who lived in the village near the border of the Khaoyai National park were dead. Pong Chandra, One of witnesses who saw the bodies said that “These three people are my neighbors and in every morning they always go out to look for Thai plants and herb near foothills in the area of Khaoyai National park. Around 4.30 a.m. I heard somebody was screaming so I asked my wife to go search that noise with me, then I found three bodies lain on the ground and they were covered with blood”.

“The first body that we found is a woman; her name is Mrs. Somsong Bunchuay, 48 years old. The second body is a man; his name is Mr. Veera Tungchaidee, 35 years old. And the last body is a woman; her name is Kanchana Meesuk, 27 years old” said the commanding officer of Khaoyai police station.

After the policemen were informed this case they cooperate with Khaoyai National park officers to inspect the area that they found the bodies. And it spent time just in an hour to find that there were a lot of big footprints of tiger.

“These footprints look like footprint of a tiger but we can’t guarantee it yet that how many of them” said the director of Khaoyai National park.

After the medical jurisprudence authorities examined the bodies, they found out that three villagers were attacked by some kind of wild animal.

“The bodies of three villagers have many severe wound, for instance, Mr. Veera have many bruises on arms and wounds on head and neck, so that’s why they can’t endure the pain” said Doctor Pattra Wattanapol, the doctor of  the medical jurisprudence authorities.

“The Khaoyai National park officers have been tracking the tiger for many hours and they quite sure that there are only one tiger that killed three villagers. It is probably it is starving” said the director of Khaoyai National park.

Finally, Khaoyai National park officers found a tiger near the village again in that evening. So the officers decided to shoot an anesthetic to the tiger and then took the tiger to the forest that very far away from the village.