Tiger poachers take to strangling prey.

Abhisek Roychowdhury KOLKATA, Oct. 30: Poachers from Bangladesh and their Indian accomplices appear to have adopted a new method to kill tigers in the Sunderbans ~ strangulation. Following interrogation of a few poachers arrested in the course of the past few months, officials of the state Criminal Investigation Department (CID) were able to piece together the modus operandi of the poachers who, in recent times, are believed to have formed a syndicate with international links as far countries in South-East Asia and China. Over the past few weeks, The Statesman accessed CID documents from which it emerged that strangling the large felines is now a more favoured method than …