chandrapur a farmer was killed in an attack by a large carnivore during midnight hours of wednesday in kaotli village under kothari forest range the body of victim manohar borule 55 was recovered from his farm on the outskirts of the village on thursday morning borule had gone to his farm for an overnight vigil to guard his standing crop the animal attacked borule sometime during the night and killed him fellow farmers discovered his dead body on thursday morning and informed forest officials a team of foresters led by rfo kothari range sn bhandari reached the scene and removed the body for postmortem after necessary inquest formalities we have not found any pugmark around the dead body which has made it is difficult to identify the killer animal however puncture wounds on the neck and throat suggest the involvement of a tiger or leopard we have collected the sample swab from the wounds and it will be sent to centre for cellular and molecular biology hyderabad for dna testing to confirm the identity of killer animal said rfo bhandari borules family were given rs 25000 as exgratia aid while the remaining compensation sum would be paid after other formalities bourle is the first victim of mananimal conflict this year in chandrapur as many as 20 people died in animal attacks during last year in the district