Infant, 3-year-old boy killed after being attacked by lion, leopard in Amreli

The second incident occurred on Tuesday morning in Khara village when a lioness attacked five-month-old Vishal Parmar. The baby boy was sleeping with his parents outside their hut on the outskirts of the village when the lioness attacked and carried him away. The child’s remains were found in a thicket of a gando baval (prosopis juliflora) 1.5 km from the hut. The remains were shifted to Sir Takhtasinhji General Hospital in Bhavnagar for forensic post-mortem, and a case of accidental death has been registered by officers of Lilia police station.

Forest officers managed to cage a male leopard and a lioness suspected to have been involved in the incidents just hours after the attacks. The leopard was caged at 2:50 AM after being trapped in the millet field where the remains of the boy were found. The lone lioness was captured by the team of Shetrunji wildlife division from the thicket at around 9 am. Both animals have been shifted to rescue centers for observation, and authorities are analyzing their scat and fur to determine if they were involved in the attacks.