BKSDA Checks The Truth Of Mukomuko Residents Killed By Tigers

JAKARTA - The Bengkulu-Lampung Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA) dispatched a team to ensure the truth that one of the residents of Teras Terunjam District, Mukomuko Regency named Ibnu Oktaviano (22) was killed by a tiger.

"The team is being dispatched to the field (to confirm the allegation," said Head of the Bengkulu-Lampung BKSDA Hifzon Zawahiri when contacted via telephone in Bengkulu City, Wednesday, January 8, confiscated by Antara.

The Head of the Bengkulu-Lampung Pirmansyah BKSDA Forest Police also conveyed the same thing that his party sent a team consisting of four personnel to the scene.

"We don't know for sure, what is clear is that we have deployed four personnel while waiting for reports from friends in the field," he said.

Previously, the Teras Terunjam Sector Police (Polsek), Mukomuko Regency, Bengkulu Province, together with the community evacuated the body of a resident of Tunggal Jaya Village, Ibnu Oktavianto (22), who was allegedly eaten by a tiger in the oil palm plantation in the area.

"People found the victim dead in Ari Cahyono's oil palm plantation on Tuesday, January 7 at around 23:30 WIB," said Mukomuko Police Chief AKBP Yana Supriatna.

For the chronology, the incident began on Tuesday, January 7 at 15.00 WIB, the victim carried out a routine of taking grass for his goat livestock on oil palm plantations.

However, at 22.00 WIB the victim had not yet returned home, so the victim's grandmother immediately contacted a local neighbor to look for the victim.

After the local community searched for victims, they searched the entire community garden in Tunggal Jaya Village, Teras Terunjam District, at 23.30 WIB the community found the victim in Ari Cahyono's oil palm plantation in a state of death, allegedly being attacked by wild animals, namely tigers.