DHAKA: Bangladeshi police gunned down six alleged tiger poachers during raid in Sundarbans forest after a gun battle, foreign news agency reported on Sunday.
Bangladeshi police commenced crackdown against tiger poachers in the world’s largest mangrove forest after emergence of drastic fall in the number of critically endangered Bengal tigers.
According to the report, number of critically endangered Bengal tigers nosdived to to 106 from an estimated 440 a decade ago.
A senior police officer told AFP that the poachers’ gang first fired bullets at the raiding police officials at Mandarbaria canal in the forest while six alleged poachers were killed in retaliation. Police also claimed to recover the skins of three adult Bengal tigers, measuring 10-11 feet (3.5 metres), four rifles and a pistol.
