A
RARE tiger has been shot dead by a hunter who claimed the endangered wild cat
had mauled him before killing his dog.
PUBLISHED: 06:00,
Fri, Nov 6, 2015 | UPDATED: 07:50, Fri, Nov 6, 2015
There
are around 500 Siberian tigers left in the wild
The
unnamed man, who told officers he was hunting wild boar at the time, said he
was forced to kill the Siberian - or Amur - tiger in self-defence after it bit
his legs.
He
was rushed to hospital after alerting authorities to the attack using his
mobile phone.
Investigators
in the far eastern Kharbarovsk region of Russia, close to the border with
China, are looking at whether the man is in fact a tiger poacher.
Sergei
Aramilev, director of the local branch of the tiger campaign group, told the
Siberian Times: "Siberian tigers very seldom attack people without a
reason.
"There
have been cases when people killed tigers to sell them and made up stories about self-defence.
"The
true picture of events will be found out when we match a map of the scene, the
hunter's testimony, autopsy results and a follow-up examination."
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