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Last Indochinese tiger in China killed and eaten by a villager | Kang Wannian, a villager from Mengla, Yunnan Province,
came across the tiger in February while gathering freshwater clams in a nature reserve near China's border with Laos. Wannian has claimed that he killed the
tiger after dark in self-defense and did not know it was an endangered Indochinese
tiger, The Telegraph reported. Only around 1,300 to 1,800 Indochinese tigers are
estimated to be living in the wild, and the tiger killed by Kang was thought to
be the only Indochinese tiger ever seen in China . It was reported that Kang's
father had his face bitten by a wild bear in 1979 when Kang was seven, and his
brother was trampled to death by a wild elephant in 1995. Four villagers who helped
Kang dismember the tiger and ate its meat were also sentenced from three to four
years for “covering up and concealing criminal gains”. |
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