Raipur: The Chhattisgarh government has set up a committee to probe the killing of a tigress in a sanctuary earlier this week.

The four-member team, headed by chief conservator of forests Pratap Singh, will make a detailed probe into the death of a six-year-old tigress which was found with bullet injuries and its claws and other parts missing at Bhoramdev sanctuary in Kawardha district, about 200 km from here.