The 12-year-old star of the Captive Tiger Safari at Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Yash, who has been undergoing treatment for cancer at SGNP, died on Wednesday. Yash had been adopted by Aaditya Thackeray, son of Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray a few years back under the animal adoption programme at SGNP.

Yash is the second captive tiger at Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) to have died in the last four months. A few months back, the last white tiger at the park, famously know as Bajirao, died of old age.