The newly constituted 80-member special team on Thursday intensified combing operations to capture the elusive tiger in Wayanad district of Kerala that is suspected to have killed a farmer at Koodallur in the district a few days ago.
The big cat, nearly 13 years old, has been identified as WWL-45 of the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary, as per the database of the Forest department.
Though the special team, consisting of trackers, shooters, veterinarians and members of the rapid response team (RRT) mobilised from the three forest divisions in the district, has searched the human habitats of the Koodallur and Moodakkolly areas bordering the Irulam forest of the South Wayanad forest division and the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary, the efforts yielded no results so far.
