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'I was holding his hand': 10-year-old Bengaluru boy killed by leopard during family pilgrimage to MM Hills

May 11, 2026 11:25 am

This is the second such fatal leopard attack on the Male Mahadeshwara Hills Temple trail this year.

From fear of blindness to hope: Doctors save vision of 10-year-old boy attacked by leopard in UP

April 10, 2026 3:48 pm

Raju Babu, a Class 5 student, was playing outside his home in a village in Bahraich district when a leopard attacked him, tearing his eyelid.

To deal with leopard attacks, training conducted for Emergency Response Units in Junnar

January 30, 2026 10:07 pm

Participants were trained on how to reach leopard attack incident spots immediately, in coordination with forest, police and health department, to ensure public safety.

Man-leopard conflict prompts Rajasthan government to launch helpline

January 29, 2026 6:14 pm

Forest Minister Sanjay Sharma said that a “1926” helpline is being established.

The area, located in the vicinity of Shirur taluka of Pune district, has seen a sharp rise in human – leopard conflict, causing deaths of at least three people, including two children, in the last three months.

Cages at essential locations, blowing sirens: Leopard threat prompts safety measures for Koregaon Bhima anniversary event

December 27, 2025 10:35 am

Pune district collector Jitendra Dudi said the forest department will conduct a survey of the area before the January 1 event and install cages at the essential locations.

The leopard’s presence in the densely populated locality triggered panic, with residents rushing indoors as police, fire brigade personnel and forest officials rushed to the spot. (Express Photo/Akash Patil)

Bhayander: Panic as leopard enters residential complex, attacks seven people; rescued after seven hour operation

December 19, 2025 9:58 pm

Incident latest in a spate of leopard attacks and sightings in Maharashtra’s expanding urban and peri-urban areas.

Authorities in Junnar have captured a male leopard following a series of fatal attacks on children

After fatal attack on 8-yr-old in Junnar, leopard captured at same location

December 17, 2025 10:12 am

In the two villages Pimparkhed and Jambut of Shirur taluka three tragic deaths occurred due to leopard attacks between October 12 and November 1. Shivanya Bombe (5) on October 12, Bhagubai Jadhav (70) on October 22 and Rohan Bombe (13) on November 1 lost their lives.

A third child death in just over two months was reported in the Junnar forest division after an eight-year-old boy was mauled by a leopard in Mangrul Pargaon (Representational). (File)

Leopard kills 8-year-old boy in Pune's Junnar, third child fatality in region within 2 months

December 16, 2025 11:13 am

Previous incidents involved the deaths of two other children and an elderly man, leading to public outrage and protests against increasing leopard attacks in the Junnar area.

Smell-based repellent among several innovations to tackle leopard menace at agri trade fair in Pune

December 11, 2025 6:50 pm

The Maharashtra Forest Department has begun procuring the repellent at the Kisan Agri Show in Moshi, Pune, to mitigate human-leopard conflicts.

After leopard kills nine-year-old, Gujarat forest officers tell village’s farm labourers to work in groups, ‘avoid unnecessary movement’

November 25, 2025 4:19 pm

The leopard was captured on Monday and taken to a shelter facility

LEOPARD ATTACK VIDEOS

Leopards of Rudraprayag | Revisiting the man-eating leopard(s) of Rudraprayag | Uttarakhand

June 22, 2020 6:22 pm

It’s 100 years since a leopard that would become “the best-hated and most-feared animal in all India”, in Jim Corbett’s words, made its first human kill.