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The Independent UK
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Arpan Rai

Three villagers arrested after mass poisoning of family of tigers in India

File: India has lost a total of 103 tigers this year, according to India’s National Tiger Conservation Authority - (AFP/Getty)

Indian forest authorities have arrested three people over the poisoning of five tigers in southern India’s Karnataka, an incident that makes up the highest death toll for big cats in one day in the state.

Five tigers were found dead inside a wildlife sanctuary in southern India’s Male Mahadeshwara Hills Wildlife Sanctuary. With the bodies of the tigers – a mother and her four cubs – all found close to each other in the wildlife sanctuary in Chamarajanagar district on Thursday.

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