Angul, November 19: Royal Bengal Tiger ‘Mahabir’ died due to infection and multiple organ failure. This was informed by the forest department after receiving the postmortem report of the big cat today.

Regional Chief Conservator of Forest (RCCF) Sudarshan Kumar Panda informed that the postmortem of ‘Mahabir’ revealed that it died due to infection and multiple organ failure. He said that the tiger had consumed a porcupine as around 8 to 10 quills of the species were recovered from the tiger’s stomach and the fur of a boar was also found from its stool.

Severe infection of a wound on its neck is also another reason for the death of the tiger which was translocated from Kanha Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh, said the RCCF.

More details about the death of the wild animal will be known after the test of the tissue sample of the dead tiger which has been sent to various government laboratories for further examination.

As many as four doctors had conducted the postmortem of ‘Mahabir’ after it was found dead in Raiguda range on Hindol-Narsinghpur border with wound marks on its neck on November 14.