The key facts

  • A leopard clamped its jaws on the neck of an eight-year-old boy and dragged him away; the child died
  • The family had come to earn money from the state of Madhya Pradesh and returned home after the incident
  • This is the third leopard incident in the district in 45 days; traps have been set

Attack in the field

In the Indian state of Gujarat, a leopard attacked an eight-year-old boy, and the child could not be saved. The incident was reported to Gazeta.Ru citing the outlet ETV Bharat. The attack happened at night: the parents were working in the field, and their son was nearby. The predator clamped its jaws on the child's neck and dragged him away. The father and mother drove the boy to the hospital themselves, but by the time they arrived he was no longer breathing.

A migrant family and the authorities' response

According to the outlet, the boy's parents had come to the region to work from the state of Madhya Pradesh; after the incident they returned home. Forest department officials set traps in the area where the predator attacked the child.

Third case in 45 days

This is already the third such incident in the district over the past 45 days. Earlier, a leopard attacked a little girl in a field — the child did not survive. Another child was seriously injured in an attack while in the district with his parents, who worked as farm laborers, but survived and was discharged from the hospital a few days later. In addition, it was reported that the leopard had earlier dragged a 12-year-old boy into the forest. Judging by these reports, the predator's victims in the district are children of laborers working in the fields — and the latest attack happened in exactly such circumstances. The publication does not report on the fate of the leopard itself or on the results of the trap installation.