Spotting wild cats in the midst of civilisation is pretty shocking. People are generally surprised and alert when they find out that a wild cat has been spotted in their area. Recently, one such incident happened in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. A fully-grown tiger was spotted inside the campus of the Army War College or the AWC in Mhow. Officials are on guard and are looking for the big cat. However, they are yet to find and capture it.
Tiger Spotted Inside The Army War College Campus
People on the campus as well as in the neighbouring areas are quite panic-stricken at the incident. The tiger was spotted in CCTV footage of a camera mounted near Gate number 3 of the college. Since then the officials have been trying to locate the tiger.
However, so far, the tiger continues to elude the officials. The tiger was spotted sometime during the night on Sunday and still hasn’t been found. The major reason for this is that the campus is filled with bushy areas and shrubs. This means that the tiger has a lot of places to hide.
The officials, nevertheless, are still on high alert. Pawan Joshi, who is the deputy forest range officer, revealed to The Times of India that the tigers have been spotted in the past approximately 40 kilometres from Mhow in areas like Mandu and Choral.
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Quick Response Team Looking For The Tiger
According to the article in The Times of India, Joshi also revealed that as of now, there are two teams that are in search of the tiger. One is the Quick Response Team or QRT, and the other is the Forest Rescue Squad that came all the way from Indore.
The two teams have been looking for the tiger so far, to no avail. Madhya Pradesh houses the most number of these species. They were endangered but are now rapidly recovering and the number of tigers in India is now steadily growing.
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