It has been two days since the tiger entered the village, and Liu Hongxiang, the first to find the tiger, still did not dare to sleep, "as soon as you close your eyes, you are a tiger."
After injuring people, smashing car windows, and wandering for more than ten hours in Linhu Village on the edge of the "Sino-Russian Boundary Lake", this adult Siberian tiger weighing about 400 kilograms was subdued by five anesthetics and sent to the Siberian Tiger Forest Garden in Hengdaohezi Town, Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province, to await further physical examination and population identification results.
Linhu Village, Baiyuwan Town, Mishan City, Heilongjiang Province, which was visited by "uninvited guests", is also gradually restoring calm, but when the villagers mention the tiger, they are still afraid, "There will be no more tigers in the future, right?" ”
Villagers in Groups 10 of Linhu Village talk about how tigers smashed their windows on April 25. Beijing News reporter Han Qinke photographed
Owner of a car whose window was smashed by a tiger: We went to save people
At 6:00 a.m. on April 23, Liu Hongxiang saw the tiger at close range, only separated by a window, about 2 meters away. "I saw a mouth, two big teeth supported", Liu Hongxiang did not react to what was outside the window, he heard a "whoosh" roar, the window was smashed.
"Frightened" Liu Hongxiang watched the tiger run away, and nearby villagers saw the tiger lying under the substation box, "We are talking next to it, and it does not move." According to visual estimates, this tiger is about 2 meters long, stands up about 1 meter high, and has a wide belly.
Three hours later, it continued to wander eastward from the ten groups of Linhu Village.
Linhu Village, close to Xingkai Lake on the border between China and Russia, has a total of ten groups, which are arranged in an east-west direction as a whole. After receiving the news that the tigers were haunting Linhu Village, the village cadres issued a notice, "Tigers have come from the village, and it is forbidden to go out." ”
A group of villagers Zhang Fu mentioned that when the tiger appeared in the morning, there were many villagers in the field, and the Baiyuwan town government sent at least 20 vehicles to look for villagers outside the village, picking people up and taking refuge in the village while driving to the cornfield on the north side to surround the tiger.
Wang Xue heard that the tiger passed by the group of seven he was in and ran to a group to the east, and immediately drove out, ready to pick up his aunt who was near a group to go home. When he reached the vicinity of the third group, Wang Xue saw two villagers still burning straw in the field, while the tiger had appeared not far away.
"The tiger is coming, run!" Wang Xue got out of the car and shouted at his fellow villagers, and the two villagers heard the shouting and drove away on their motorcycles. After shouting, when she got into the car and was ready to turn around and leave, the tiger pounced. "It's only a few seconds, it's very fast."
With a "bang", the tiger pounced on Wang Xue's car, the car was lifted, the left rear window glass was also broken by the tiger's claws, and the hand of Wang Xue's aunt sitting in the right back seat of the car was cut out by the splashed glass shards. "At that time, my brain was blank, I couldn't remember (the tiger) pounced a few times, stepped on the accelerator and ran."
Two days later, Wang Xue mentioned that the scene at that time was still pale and his voice was weak, "mainly afraid." In addition to the fear of getting up close and personal with tigers, she is also distressed about her car being damaged by tigers.
On April 25, a reporter from the Beijing News saw her car in the courtyard of Wang Xue's home. At the left door, you can see several scratches and pits thrown out by tiger claws, longer than the palm of a person's hand.
"Some people on the Internet say that we are going to see the liveliness", Wang Xue felt very aggrieved, "No, we are going to save people." ”
On April 25, a reporter from the Beijing News saw her car that had been damaged by a tiger in the courtyard of Wang Xue's home. Beijing News reporter Han Qinke photographed
Villager who was bitten by a tiger on the right shoulder: I didn't know the pain at the time
A group of Li Chunxiang was not so lucky. She was thrown down, bitten, and the tiger left her with a muscle injury to her right shoulder, and five wounds, large and small, and she underwent debridement, suturing, and a nucleic acid test on her shoulder— considering that the tiger might have come from abroad.
On the morning of April 25, a reporter from the Beijing News met Li Chunxiang at the Mishan People's Hospital, she was in good spirits and had a loud voice, but because of the serious shoulder injury, she could only lie in bed and recuperate.
"The shoulders were bitten through and two large tendons were injured." Li Chunxiang's husband, Li Baojun, said that it is difficult to say whether he can completely recover in the future.
Recalling the moment of being bitten, Li Chunxiang did not know that it was a tiger.
On the morning of the 23rd, Li Chunxiang was collecting straw in a group of bud rice fields on the northeast side of Linhu Village. Near noon, several villagers working together went home to prepare lunch, and Li Chunxiang stayed alone in the field, when she did not know the news that the Siberian tiger had arrived.
Li Baojun's family has nearly 100 acres of land, and the land where the incident occurred is one of them, fifteen acres of dry land. Recently, the couple is hurrying to clean up the straw in the field, burn it, turn over the soil, and start the new year's corn sowing before and after the rains.
At about 11 o'clock, Li Chunxiang noticed a small white car rushing into her field with its horn, and she also wondered, "Why doesn't this person take the right path and jump into the ground?" She was about to pick up the straw at her feet and get up to drive the car away, but she was thrown down, and she only remembered that she had a lot of strength to throw down her, "took a bite, screamed and ran."
Mr. Song, the owner of the white car, drove all the way to sixty or seventy kilometers per hour, but he still couldn't run the tiger, "its speed I feel can have more than a hundred (kilometers per hour)." Mr. Song could only drive forward while pressing the horn at the tiger, "The road is not good, it is all ditches, the car is shaking very badly, I always press the horn of the car, thinking that if it does not work, I will hit it at once, at least let it hide and drive it away." ”
Li Chunxiang stood up on his own, straightened his clothes, and waited until Mr. Song shouted at her that he noticed a tiger not far away. "As soon as I saw a tiger in front of me, I was dumbfounded, and then he (Mr. Song) asked me to get into the car quickly, and I was still there with a stupid pestle, and he said I came to save you."
The tiger was chased away, Li Chunxiang was still blindfolded, and she asked Mr. Song, "What is that thing?" Is it a tiger? Mr. Song asked her, "Have you been bitten?" Li Chunxiang just said, "My shoulder hurts a little."
Li Baojun saw that Mr. Song's white car was "choked enough in the ground" and "really saw the righteous courage to do it." When he opened his wife's coat to help take it off, he found that there was blood on it, and there were several holes in the position of his right shoulder, so he knew that he had been bitten by a tiger, and "I didn't know that it hurt at that time."
The tiger's paw prints left in the villagers' yards are more than 10 centimeters long. Beijing News reporter Han Qinke photographed
The first villager to see a tiger: as soon as he closed his eyes, he was a tiger
The last place where the tiger wandered was near a group. A group of houses in Linhu Village can be roughly divided into four rows from north to south, with dryland in the north and paddy fields in the south.
After biting Li Chunxiang, it hid in the ground on the north side of a group. The staff involved in the arrest at the scene mentioned that it is now the spring ploughing period, and the color of the weeds and crops in the farmland is similar to the color of the tiger's fur, and it is difficult to find the tiger's figure with the naked eye at a distance.
At 2 p.m. on the 23rd, Zhang Fu, a villager in a group of Linhu Village, personally saw the tiger coming out of the ditch in his backyard, "less than 20 meters away", in order to ensure safety, he was arranged to take shelter in the neighbor's house for a while, and two policemen paid attention to the movement of the tiger on the roof of his house.
At about 9 p.m. that night, the Siberian tiger, who was shot five times in the anesthesia needle, was finally subdued. On the 24th, it was sent to the Northeast Tiger Forest Park in Hengdaohezi Town, Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province, for observation, physical examination, isolation and quarantine, and the staff has extracted its genes, waiting for the results of population identification and judging its source.
On the 24th, Zhang Fu took a reporter from the Beijing News to see the traces of the tiger lying in the ditch in his backyard, and he could still see a small mud pit, "it may be that he was tired of running, and the cat was cat in the ditch for more than two hours", he guessed.
On April 23, tigers lay in a drainage ditch in the backyard of a group of residents for more than two hours. Beijing News reporter Han Qinke photographed
The villagers living on the northernmost side of a group of Linhu Village, because the backyard of the family left traces of the wandering of the Siberian tiger, there were constantly villagers who came to watch and became the "red people" in the village. Villager Lao Zhou saw the Siberian tiger that "cut open the ditch in two clicks", "I lived in the village for more than 60 years and saw a live tiger for the first time." ”
"Who has seen a tiger," Liu Hongxiang's wife said, adding that there were also many tiger paw prints in the backyard of her family, each of which was more than ten centimeters long. The staff in charge of anesthesia has previously said that the Siberian tiger is initially estimated to weigh more than 400 pounds.
The Siberian tigers that suddenly visited Linhu Village have been properly resettled, but the "sequelae" of some villagers' close contact with tigers are still there. Liu Hongxiang did not dare to open the door at night now, "always felt that as soon as the door was opened, something would come out", and did not dare to sleep, "as soon as you close your eyes, it is a tiger", he muttered, "There will be no more tigers in the future, right?" ”
Beijing News reporter Han Qinke Bo Qiyu intern Mu Hongju
Edited by Liu Qian
Proofread by Liu Yue