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| Tuesday, 27 April 2004 |
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Life insurance for Bangladeshis who risk being mauled by tigers DHAKA, Monday (AFP) The Bangladeshi government is to offer life insurance to workers who risk being mauled to death in the mangrove forest that is the natural habitat of the Royal Bengal Tiger, a report said Sunday. Honey collectors and wood cutters are regularly killed in the Sunderbans, the world's largest mangrove forest, which covers 6,000 square kilometres (3,720 square miles) of swamp straddling Bangladesh and India. Insurance would cost each worker 100 taka (1.60 dollars) per year, the official news agency BSS said. In the event of accidental death of any kind in the Sunderbans, the deceased person's family would receive 25,000 taka (416 dollars), it said. Honey collectors and wood cutters are particularly vulnerable to tiger attacks as they have to trek deep into the forests. |
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