These horrific images show the shocking aftermath of tiger attacks in an Indian community where 22 villagers have been killed and eaten in one year.

Terrified residents in the Lakhimpur Kheri district of northern India's Uttar Pradesh are being increasingly targeted by about a dozen man-eating big cats in the area's sugar-cane fields.

Footage shows people desperately running for cover and clambering up trees after spotting tigers while gruesome images show half-eaten bodies lying in the undergrowth.

One victim's leg had been gnawed to the bone, while what appears to be a headless corpse is shown after a separate attack.

Horrific images have emerged showing the shocking aftermath of tiger attacks in an Indian community where 22 villagers have been killed and eaten in one year. One victim was found with his leg gnawed down to the bone (pictured)

Gruesome images show half-eaten bodies lying in the undergrowth after a string of tiger attacks in the Lakhimpur Kheri district of northern India's Uttar Pradesh

Footage shows people desperately running for cover and clambering up trees after spotting tigers

Frightened villages have pleaded for help after claiming forestry bosses have failed to keep them safe or move tigers to another area. The footage shows tigers prowling around in the area

Another clip shows men trying to tranquilize one of the big cats in dense sugar cane fields and celebrating while the unconscious animal is being carried away in the bucket of a digger.

Frightened villages have pleaded for help after claiming forestry bosses have failed to keep them safe or move tigers to another area.

It comes after nearby forests were declared a tiger reserve on June 9, 2014 in a bid to boost numbers of the animal. But some 250 residents living next to the reserve -near the city of Pilibhit - claim their lives have drastically changed ever since.

In one recent incident a woman from Veerkheda in Kalinagar district was killed by a tiger when she went out to relieve herself in a field.

When she did not come back for more than an hour her family went out in search of her, only to discover her half-eaten body.

In one clip, villagers can be seen desperately sprinting for cover amid fears a tiger was on the loose

On one occasion in the last year, farmers were forced to corner one of the animals themselves in a field after chasing it with sticks. Footage shows a tiger bounding across fields in the area

The shocking images emerged after nearby forests were declared a tiger reserve on June 9, 2014 in a bid to boost tiger numbers

Villagers are shown mourning the death of a man whose mutilated body was found in sugar cane fields

Tiger attacks are becoming so common place in the area that people try not to go out alone in the fields while many prefer not to go out at night knowing the animals are nocturnal hunters

On one occasion in the last year, farmers were forced to corner one of the animals themselves in a field after chasing it with sticks. Some scrambled up trees in terror before the animal was chased away by farm dogs.

The reserve's 400 mile boundary is interspersed with farms and broken up by three national highways, two state highways, 47 district roads and more than 20 smaller roads.

In many places, the buffer between farms and reserve is as little as 30ft and many cannot afford fences for their tiny holdings.

Tiger attacks are becoming so common place in the area that people try not to go out alone in the fields while many prefer not to go out at night knowing the animals are nocturnal hunters.

In many places, the buffer between farms and reserve is as little as 30ft and many cannot afford fences for their tiny holdings

Another clip shows men trying to tranquilize one of the big cats in dense sugar cane fields

The clip shows men celebrating while the unconscious animal is being carried away in the bucket of a digger

Rows have also broken out over compensation for attacks, with the sum of a million rupees (£10,860) given to families of victims killed outside tiger reserves

Rows have also broken out over compensation for attacks, with the sum of a million rupees (£10,860) given to families of victims killed outside tiger reserves.

In one instance a family was accused of moving a woman's mailed body from a reserve into a field in a bid to unlock the payment. Some reports even claimed that her family sent her out alone as prey just so they could claim the compensation.

'How can a son send his mother to be killed by a tiger for compensation? No one can do this to his mother for any cost. We are poor but we will never trade the life of our mother for money,' said the woman's eldest son.

Officials in the area have boasted of doubling the numbers of the endangered Dudhwa species of tigers.

But experts say better planning is needed to improve tiger 'green corridors' to avoid contact with humans.