A 68-year-old man was killed in a tiger attack on Friday morning while collecting fodder in a community forest in Chitwan district.

Padam Bahadur Rana Magar of Gawai village in ward 13 of Khairahani Municipality was attacked in the Kumroj Buffer Zone Community Forest, according to the District Police Office, Chitwan.

 Rana Magar had entered the forest with two others at around 7am. While the others returned, he did not, prompting a search that began at 1pm. His body was found at around 2:45pm, said Deputy Superintendent of Police Rabindra Khanal, the police spokesperson.

The forest lies adjacent to the Chitwan National Park, where similar fatal incidents involving tigers have occurred in previous years.

According to Avinash Thapa Magar, the park’s information officer and conservation officer, 13 people have died and 37 others have been injured in wild animal attacks in the park’s buffer zone so far this fiscal year. The park’s buffer zone extends across settlements in four districts—Chitwan, Nawalparasi East, Makwanpur and Parsa.