Worker dies in tiger attack

RIAU: A rare Sumatran tiger has killed a man in the latest human-tiger conflict in a western Indonesian region widely deforested.

The victim, Yusri Effendi, a 34-year-old construction worker, was mauled in the Indragiri Hilir district of the Sumatran province of Riau.

The victim and three fellow workers spotted the tiger under a building while at work and waited for two hours until it had left.

They then walked about 300 yards but came face-toface with the tiger, which attacked Mr Effendi as the others ran for safety.

The location was about 12 miles from a palm oil plantation where a female worker was mauled to death in January.