A Royal Bengal tiger has been found dead near Malibasti of Thori Rural Municipality-4 in Parsa district.

Information Officer at the District Police Office, Kishor Lamsal, shared that the tiger was found dead about 500 meters south from the Postal Highway in Malibasti at 7:30 am today. 

A team under the command of Assistant Sub Inspector Dharmendra Sah from Police Post Bijaybasti has been deputed after locals informed about the incident. 

A team from the Parsa National Park has also reached the incident site for the necessary investigation. 

Ranger Jayram Neupane of the Parsa National Park said that the dead tiger has been brought to the Parsa National Park for postmortem.