67-yr-old killed by leopard in Valsad, girl by lioness in Amreli

The incidental took spot connected Monday evening and the wood section unit caged the lioness successful the aboriginal hours of Tuesday, helium said.

As per details received from wood section officials of Dharampur, Sonaiben Kangabhai Chaudhary (67), a nonmigratory of Ambatalat colony was sleeping connected the level extracurricular her location erstwhile her grandson was woken up by her screams.

He saw his grandma being dragged into the adjacent cultivation fields and alerted his begetter and different household members, said officers.

Along with different villagers, helium acceptable retired connected a hunt cognition but could not find the aged pistillate aft which wood officials were informed.

On the ground of pug marks of the leopard and signs of a quality being’s assemblage being dragged away, they went into the adjacent paddy field.Talking to The Indian Express, Dharampur wood serviceman Hiren Patel said, “We reached the paddy tract and recovered the woman’s caput portion the little portion of the assemblage was missing. We continued our hunt cognition based connected the humor spots detected, and aft 100 meters, we recovered it successful a mango orchard successful the neighbouring area. We person handed implicit the assemblage to Dharampur constabulary for further process.” Following the incident, wood section officials installed 11 CCTV cameras and arsenic galore cages successful the adjacent area.

On Tuesday, the leopard was caught successful 1 of the cages.

Patel added, “We person recovered pug marks of the leopard adjacent the body. Once we get the post-mortem introspection report, we volition commencement the process to compensate the household members of the deceased. The leopard is simply a 7-year-old big male. We are waiting for the support from our higher-ups successful bid to determine the zoo it should beryllium shifted in.”

Meanwhile, successful Amreli, the lioness attacked the miss erstwhile she was connected her mode backmost location from a workplace with her parent successful Kanthariya Khalsa colony of Jafrabad taluka, Range Forest Officer GL Vaghela said.

The lioness dragged the miss into the bushes. Later, assemblage parts of the insignificant were recovered successful a adjacent area, helium said.

Soon aft the incident, wood section officials reached the spot and embarked connected an workout to seizure the lioness.

They managed to tranquillise and cage the large feline aboriginal Tuesday morning, Vaghela said.

(With PTI inputs)