Dead tigress recovered

Forest Department recovered a dead tigress from the Sundarbans on Friday night.

Forest guards spotted the tigress carcass in Dhunchebaria Char of the Bhola river under Sharankhola Range of the Sundarbans around 8:30pm, Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) of the Sundarbans East Division Mohammad Belayet Hossain said.

The decomposed body has been kept at Sharanthola Range Office and it will be buried after conducting an autopsy, he said. The tigress, aged around 14 to 15 years, might have died two to three days ago.

Assistant Forest Conservator Joynal Abedin said they will send the samples to the forensic lab in Dhaka to find out the reason behind the death.