Tiger kills 2 in Sundarbans

Our Correspondent, Satkhira
A man and his son were killed by tigers as they went to collect firewoods in Rameswar area of the Sundarbans yesterday. The victims were identified as Nawsher Ali Gazi, 70, son of late Omar Ali Gazi and his son Ismail Hossain Gazi, 15, of village Kadamtala in Shyamnagar upazila. Quoting locals police said, when the two were collecting firewood in Rameswar area, two tigers swooped on them and dragged them into the deep forest at about 9:30am yesterday. Locals later recovered the bodies from the deep forest at about 2:00pm.