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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Thaslima Begum in the Sundarbans

‘Husband eaters’: the double loss of Bangladesh’s ostracised tiger widows

A man sets out in a small flat-bottomed boat on a wide and placid river with dense palms and other vegetation on the banks
A villager on Bangladesh’s Shakbaria River. Koyra, in Khulna district, borders the Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest and home to more than 100 Bengal tigers. Widows are supposed to get compensation after tiger attacks but the money is hard to claim. Photograph: Farzana Hossen/The Guardian

Nobody saw exactly what happened in the minutes leading up to Aziz Murad’s death. But when his friends got back to the boat where they had left him, they found only his severed hand in the fishing net he was untying.

“We were only gone for about five minutes,” says Abu Sufyan, who was first to reach the boat. “When we got back, he was gone and there was blood everywhere.”

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