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Article: A SUMATRAN TIGER AGAIN ATTACKS PEOPLE IN INDONESIA'S RIAU.
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- ANT - LKBN ANTARA (Indonesia)
- Article date:
- October 10, 2005
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Pekanbaru, Riau, Oct 10 (ANTARA) - A Sumatran tiger again attacked and killed a resident of Riau Province. This time, Iyuk, 40, resident of Sungai Pagar, Kampar regency, was the victim. According to a WWF's representative official here Monday, he might have died of the endangered animal's attack on October 7 when he was working in his rubber plantation but his body was found on the following day. The Riau chapter's WWF's Tiger Program Team Coordinator Abeng said Iyuk was the 29th victim of the tiger attack over these past four years.
From more than 40 human-tiger conflict cases, 17 victims were seriously wounded, and eight others sustained light injuries, he ...