A one-and-a-half-year-old male tiger was killed when it was knocked down and run over by a car on the Mysuru-Nanjangud highway close to the Mysuru airport late on January 28 night.
Dr. Basavaraj, Deputy Conservator of Forests (Territorial) said the accident took place around 11 p.m. on January 28. The tiger belonged to a litter of four cubs that used to be sighted with their mother near Nanjangud a few months ago for which combing operations were being carried out.