Their anger is evident. In the ferocious manner with which they swing their sticks. In their shrieks of "maar, maar" (beat it, beat it). And in the loud, distressing thump sounds made as the sticks strike the helpless animal's body.

This is from a distressing video that shows a tigress being lynched by villagers in Uttar Pradesh. The tigress was apparently involved in attacks on humans. But, some reports have contradicted that.

What is clear is the mercilessness with which the tigress was beaten to death in Uttar Pradesh's Pilbhit, which borders Uttarakhand and has a tiger reserve of its own.

A video of the attack has now emerged and it shows a crazed mob thrashing the tigress with sticks and spears. The villagers are visibly and audibly angry, and many are heard manically shouting, "Maar, maar".

(Waring: The video below is distressing and graphic)

What the hell!! This is allegedly from Pilibhit. The full grown tiger was beaten to death by the villagers! We take over their natural habitat & then such display of cruelty! @ParveenKaswan @susantananda3 pic.twitter.com/08srBnpy5J Akancha Srivastava (@AkanchaS) July 26, 2019

The mob is seen raining blow after blow on the tigress; some men are seen furiously poking the animal with spears.

All through the beating, the tigress lies listlessly on the ground, a far cry of its wild, big cat self. She succumbed to her injuries within hours.

So bad was the beating that the tigress "sustained fractures and injuries... on almost every part of her body," Pilibhit Tiger Reserve (PTR) field director H Rajamohan was quoted as saying by news agency IANS.

Rajamohan said that the tigress, who was between five and six years old, also suffered from broken ribs.

A probe has been ordered into why forest officials were unable to rescue the tigress sooner. The probe will verify whether the angry villagers were responsible for preventing forest officials from tending to the tigress.

Meanwhile, the police have registered a First Information Report (FIR) against more than 40 people, 31 of whom have been identified.