"‘Man-eating’ tigers blamed for four deaths as Malaysia sounds alarm,"

Authorities in Malaysia have captured two critically endangered Malayan tigers after they were blamed for an unprecedented spree of deaths among villagers...

The latest victim of a suspected tiger attack was a man who is believed to have been mauled in a rubber plantation in Gua Musang, Kelantan, on Saturday, just days after a Myanmar national was found dead in the same area...

There were two earlier deaths in October, the first involving a man named Pisie Amud, 25, who had gone fishing near the forests of Pos Pasik in Kelantan.

Another man from an indigenous community, Halim Asin, 27, was found dead two days later.

Authorities have called the spate of deadly incidents unprecedented, saying that only four tiger attacks in total, two of which were fatal, were recorded in five years between 2017 and 2022...

[State Perhilitan director Mohamad Hafid Rohani] called on “plantation workers to avoid working alone and provoking wildlife” in the area.

At least one of the victims, however, was not working alone. The Myanmar national who died this month, identified as Ahka Soe Ya, 22, was found in the same village as Lalu in Kampung Meranto in Gua Musang. The rubber plantation worker was working with his wife when he was fatally injured in the attack and died at the hospital after fatal injuries to his neck.

“The hospital confirmed the victim’s death following emergency treatment. The autopsy results indicated that the cause of death was severe head injuries due to a tiger attack,” district police chief Sik Choon Foo said...