The tigress that had entered into Galudih jungle in Ghatshila sub-division bordering Bengal about 60 kms away from here over week ago might have returned back to Bengal.

 However, the locals are still gripped with fear. The people, including the children, are scared in the Dainmari and Basadera jungles in Galudih.

People living in Baguria panchayat adjoining the stretch of 15 kms-long Dainmari and Basadera jungles are panic gripped of the tigress.

Not only the school children, their parents who are coming to drop the children at the school at Jhanti Jharna and Mirgi Tand both close to the border of the stretch of Dainmari jungles are also carrying bows and arrow or any traditional weapon.

Divisional forest officer, Jamshedpur, Abhishek Kumar still doubts that the tigress might be in some of these dense jungle though no information of any fresh killing has reached to them.

The DFO, when queried said that they are not sure whether the tigress which had most probably come from Similipal Tiger Reserve in neighbouring Mayurbhanj district of Odisha has returned back.

A tigress had sneaked into the jungle of Dainmari in Galudih in Ghatshila sub-division, about 60 kms away from here from Bengal about a week ago when an ox had gone missing and a cow was left with a wound inflicted by its nails. Forest department officials also found pug marks near a water body at the dense Dainmari jngle. The presence of the tigress became evident when it killed another ox near Dharagiri fall about five kms away from Dainmari.

 The department has also issued an advisory aiming at the villagers living in and around Dainmari jungle in Galudih in Ghatshila sub-division about 50 kms away from here over presence of a tigress in the region.