A female offspring of tigress Avni, who was shot dead in 2018 after being declared man-eater, has died during treatment of injuries following an internecine fight at a forest here in Maharashtra, officials said on Sunday. The three-year-old offspring, named PTRF-84, was on March 5 released in the Pench Tiger Reserve (PTR) in Nagpur after over two years of "re-wilding" efforts, they said.

However, the feline was retrieved from the wild on March 8 after it received injuries on its right foreleg following an internecine fight, PTR's Chief Conservator of Forest and Field Director Ravikiran Govekar said in a release. The big cat was kept in an enclosure at Titralmangi in the PTR and was being monitored and treateddaily by veterinary experts, he said. On Saturday evening, the animal's health deteriorated and the veterinary team advised to shift it to a medical facility at Gorewada in Nagpur.