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Widow Sumitra Mandol (center), 45, speaks of her husband's death as she sits outside her home on Gosaba island, Sundarban, West Bengal, India, on 18th January, 2012. While her husband was killed while hunting illegally in the sanctuary across the river, tigers have been known to swim, sometimes underwater, to the village to hunt humans. A successful Royal Bengal tiger breeding program has increased their numbers but decreased the number of husbands. There are now an estimated 3,000 widows in the villages where their husbands, have been killed by tigers. Photo by Suzanne Lee for The National (online byline: Photo by Szu for The National)

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Widow Sumitra Mandol (center), 45, speaks of her husband's death as she sits outside her home on Gosaba island, Sundarban, West Bengal, India, on 18th January, 2012. While her husband was killed while hunting illegally in the sanctuary across the river, tigers have been known to swim, sometimes underwater, to the village to hunt humans. A successful Royal Bengal tiger breeding program has increased their numbers but decreased the number of husbands. There are now an estimated 3,000 widows in the villages where their husbands, have been killed by tigers. Photo by Suzanne Lee for The National (online byline: Photo by Szu for The National)