A five-month-old male tiger cub died after being hit by a vehicle in Tamil Nadu’s Nilgiris district, a forest department official said on Friday. He said the identity of the vehicle was not immediately known.
A forest department team found the carcass of the tiger cub at Mamram on the Kotagiri-Mettupalayam road in the district on Thursday night. During the post-mortem, the rib bones of the cub were found broken. The Forest Department is investigating the matter.