Pilibhit (UP), Jan 30 (PTI) A 40-year-old man was mauled to death by a tiger in Pilibhit district of Uttar Pradesh, officials said on Tuesday.

Gangaram Yadav, a resident of Jamuniya Khas village in the Madhautanda police station area of the district, had gone missing on Monday and his half-eaten body was found in a sugarcane field on Tuesday, Naveen Khandelwal, the deputy director of Pilibhit Tiger Reserve, said.

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Khandelwal said the movement of the tiger has been tracked in the Mathna beat of the Mala range of the forest.

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