Canning (WB), Jul 18 (PTI) A fisherman was killed by a tiger in the Sunderbans in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district, forest officials said on Saturday.

Prafulla Sardar (45), a resident of Gopalganj in the Kultali area, went there along with two others to catch crabs on Friday, they said.

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The tiger pounced on him suddenly and dragged him into the jungle.

The others fled the scene and when they returned along with more men, they found Sardar's half-eaten body.

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His head and a leg were missing when the villagers found the body, forest officials said.

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