New Delhi (AFP) - Indian wildlife authorities Thursday captured a tiger blamed for killing 13 people over a 10-month period, a local official said.

The five-year-old, dubbed the " conflict tiger " or CT-1, was calmed and captured about a week after officials declared him a threat to humans and authorized his capture.

The tiger has been attributed to killing 13 people in remote forest areas in western Maharashtra since last December, including two in one day.

The last victim of an attack attributed to the tiger was last month.

"The tiger was tracked for some time until it was finally caught inside the forest," Wildlife Authority official Kishore Mankar told AFP.

Mankar said all the victims were attacked inside the jungle area, where some were living or entering to collect firewood.

He said the tiger had been taken to nearby Nagpur district and was being monitored by veterinarians before a decision was taken on its future, with the possibility of being released or kept in captivity.

This tiger is not the only annoying one in India.

On Saturday, the police shot dead another tiger that killed nine people in the eastern state of Bihar, in a large operation involving two hundred people, including elephant grooms.

Students at a university in the central state of Madhya Pradesh have been told to stay indoors after dark, due to a tiger roaming around the campus.

Environmental activists attribute these cases to the rapid expansion of human settlements around forests and major wildlife routes, such as the habitats of elephants and tigers, which is a source of increasing clashes between humans and animals in some parts of India.

About 225 people were killed in tiger attacks between 2014 and 2019 in India, according to government data.

These statistics revealed that more than 200 tigers were killed by illegal poachers or by electrocution between 2012 and 2018.

India is home to about 70% of the world's tigers, with 2,967 tigers in the country in 2018.