Perak wildlife and national parks department (Perhilitan) director Yusoff Shariff confirmed the capture of the man-eater that entered the trap installed by Perhilitan.

“Yes, it was caught near Jeli. Kelantan Perhilitan will provide more information regarding this capture,” he said.

Yesterday, Yusoff said his department was working with Kelantan Perhilitan to catch a tiger suspected of mauling two men to death on the East-West Highway between Gerik and Jeli earlier this week.

In the first attack on Tuesday, a local resident, Adnan Ismail, 54, was killed by a tiger while going to an outdoor toilet in a forest area at Km79.2 of the highway in Bersia. His body was found about 100m from the workers’ quarters.

On Thursday, it was reported that a Myanmar national was killed, with his left thigh severed.

He was believed to have been attacked by the same tiger the night before behind a house on a chilli farm at Batu 18 of the highway, near Batu Melintang in Jeli.

His body was found 300m away.

Photos and videos of the tiger’s capture, a critically endangered species in Malaysia, went viral on social media.