Authorities to send working group to help local gov't address tiger attack incident

The Forestry and Grassland Bureau in Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province on Monday held an emergency meeting and decided to send a working group to assist the local government after a tiger bit a local villager in Boli County, Heilongjiang.

The team included staff from relevant departments, as well as experts and technicians from the feline research center under the National Forestry and Grassland Bureau and the Hengdaohezi Feline Breeding Center, according to a statement released by the bureau.

The meeting emphasized that the recent incident in Boli County, where a tiger entered a village and injured people, requires special attention so as to enhance conflict prevention and ensure the safety of both humans and the tiger.

A video clip published by the CCTV shows the tiger attempted to charge at the large iron gate of a villager's house. The elderly villager met the tiger and narrowly escaped the attack by running away.