seconds later they turned and ran the girl was bleeding all over and unconscious a net was thrown over it and the sleeping animal was dragged inside a cage the entire katamari village had come out in the open by then another shooter was arranged and this time there was no mistake most of the villagers including the oldest 70year old aditya maity had never seen a tiger seeing the crowd the animal ran to a nearby mound in the empty room the tiger found a cot and made itself comfortable the dog stood up all eight feet of it and roared she took a step forward and raised her hand usha was seriously injured said sudip sardar her cousin her 11yearold sisterinlaw usha nearly collapsed tranquillizer gun in hand he bravely entered the garden took aim and squeezed the trigger thrice halfsleepy and lost in the fog they did not see it until too late a tiger had never intruded this far from the sunderbans at least not in the past few decades soon we found usha in a pool of blood its roar had roused the village and a group came charging with sticks and axes we jumped out of our seats and ran towards the inner room said arun betal sridhars nephew the nearest one had been to deulbari village two km from katamari she froze the dart quickly took effect showing surprising presence of mind sridhar bolted the door from outside the three clicks had alerted the tiger and it charged at mandal but the next moment the enraged animal was on him slashing with its fangs one of them ran after the tiger as it vanished into a hillock barely 50 metres from where usha was found after presumably making a meal of the dog the tiger reentered the village and chose a garden owned by sridhar betal neither apparently had the village dogs then silence we were having tea when shouts of bagh bagh startled us she faintly saw the tail wag thought it was a dog and said shoo