Forest dept sets up 11 trap cages after leopard attacks 2 boys in Junagadh

Rohit Thakor, a five-year-old son of a migrant labuorer from Maharashtra, was attacked and injured by a leopard while he was asleep with his family in Alidhra village Wednesday night.

The attack was reported a day after Ravikumar Bhagat Singh, a six-year-old son of another migrant labourer couple from Mahara-shtra, was attacked and injured in adjoining Najapur village.

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“The distance between the two areas is five to six kms. So, we cannot rule out the possibility of the same animal involved in both the incidents. Therefore, we have gone for a landscape approach to cage the animal. We have put up 11 cages, not just in the two villages from where the incidents were reported but in the nearby villages also so that even if the animal is moving in centrifugal or centripetal way, we can catch the animal,” Dheeraj Mittal, deputy conservator of forests (DCF) of Gir (west) wildlife division said.