The tiger first killed a 75-year-old man when it dragged him out of a hut on the fringes of the Chitwan National Park in central Nepal, police said.[break]
"The old man was living with his daughter-in-law but she said she didn´t know about the attack. In the morning people saw blood and traced it to the forest, where they found the body," Superintendent Deepak Kumar Thapa told AFP.
Thapa said a 31-year-old man then fell victim to the same tiger when he joined a group of villagers trying to hunt it down.
Dozens of policemen and forestry officials have now been sent to the area with a cage to capture the tiger alive.
According to the WWF conservation group, there are around 150 wild tigers in Nepal, mostly in the country´s protected areas in the southern plains.
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