Johannesburg - (AFP) - A tiger fleeing four days ago from a farm near Johannesburg, South Africa, was killed at dawn on Wednesday, after a new attack targeting a dog inside an inhabited farm.

"We had no choice but to get rid of her," Mandy Grisham, a resident of the area, told AFP, "because it had killed a dog on a farm where six families live" and "has become very dangerous."

Sheba, an 8-year-old female Bengal tiger, attacked a 39-year-old man who managed to survive, killing dogs and a deer. A search was launched for her, which was undertaken by dozens of police officers, environmental advocates and residents of the region, supported by a drone and helicopter.

On Saturday, the female tiger succeeded in getting out of her cage after an unknown person cut the fence of the farm, which is about thirty kilometers from the economic capital of South Africa, in the country's most populous province.
And she was spotted on Monday near the farm, to which she returned in search of meat to eat.

"It is very dangerous and irresponsible to keep these animals in a residential area," the South African Society for the Protection of Animals said.
The breeding of tigers, an endangered animal, has increased in South Africa in recent years.
South Africa lacks an official census on the number of tigers in it. Four Paws, an animal rights NGO, notes that between 2011 and 2020, 10% of the global population (359 tigers) were exported from South Africa.