Hong Kong In northern China, authorities are looking for a wild tiger that mauled two men and required surgery on one of them.
A peasant was bitten on the left hand late Monday, according to a statement from officials in Boli County, which is in Heilongjiang, the northernmost province of China. According to state media People’s Daily, the man’s injuries was so severe that he needed a four-hour limb-salvage procedure to prevent amputation.
The Heilongjiang Forestry and Grassland Administration called an emergency meeting Monday night after the incident and determined that the injured animal was a Siberian tiger.
With a maximum weight of 660 pounds and a maximum length of over 11 feet, Siberian tigers are the largest cats in the world. The endangered large cats are indigenous to Russia and northeast China, where they can be found in river valleys, mountains, and woods.
Participants at the emergency conference concluded that the incident needed more attention and more robust risk prevention because Boli County is not a key habitat for tigers, according to astatement. It further stated that a specialized task force has now been sent to help the local authorities handle the situation.
The tiger that bit the villager might still be in the region, according to Liu Dan, head engineer of Heilongjiang’s Hengdaohezi Feline Breeding and Research Center, who made the statement on Wednesday.
A CCTV camera captured the early morning encounter with a second Boli man who barely avoided a tiger attack on Monday. The large cat is seen slamming itself against the man’s home’s iron gate in the footage, which went viral on Chinese social media.
Authorities have not yet confirmed the number of tigers wandering free or whether any have been captured, and it is unknown if the same tiger was involved in both occurrences.
Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park announced in a statement that anyone hurt by wild Siberian tigers in Heilongjiang is entitled to financial compensation. The village where the event occurred is more than 120 miles from the park and is therefore not under its control, the park stated.
China’s National Forestry and Grassland Administration reports that in just six years, the number of Siberian tigers in the wild has increased dramatically from 27 to 70 thanks to conservation efforts by Chinese officials.
According to a July WeChat post by the Chinese Felid Conservation Alliance, 17 Siberian tigers were observed in human-populated areas in China between January and June of this year, and 19 were sighted in the first 11 months of last year.
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