The incident took place in the Madhya Pradesh region of India.
The girl, identified by local media as Poonam Gond, was with her grandmother and sisters in a rice paddy in the Shahdol district of Madhya Pradesh when the tiger attacked.
"My granddaughter and I were cutting paddy in the field. It was around 2.30 p.m.," the girl's grandmother, Terasiya Gond, told the"I heard the scream of Poonam. I thought she cut her hand with a sickle, but when I turned around to see her, I saw ato the field. I cried for help and the villagers, who were cutting paddy in their fields, came and tried to save the girl, but the tiger grabbed her and fled into the dense forest.
Tigers are the largest species of cat in the world, and are found across areas of south and southeast Asia, mostly within China and India. The largest tiger species, the
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