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Mandi (Nov 2): A seven-year-old boy was killed by a leopard in Gutkar village, about 10 km from Mandi town, last evening.
According to police and forest authorities, the boy, Sagar Pratap, had accompanied his mother to the cow-shed where she was milking a cow. The leopard lifted the boy from the door of the cow-shed and got away. On her raising alarm villagers, some villagers rushed there and made a frantic search for the boy and the big cat. During the night-long search they once did get a glimpse of the leopard, but failed to locate the boy, dead or alive. All they could trace was the torn trousers of the boy. When the search was resumed in the morning, the half eaten body of Sagar was located near the village.
Police handed over the dead body to the parents of the boy after postmortem. The villagers today demanded immediate killing of the leopard, which they fear would turn a man-eater after tasting human blood.
Divisional forest officer SS Joshi told media persons that the department has given immediate ex-gratia compensation of Rs 10,000 to the parents of the deceased. The department has also laid a trap to catch the killer animal, he added.
i belong to Mandi, The man animal conflict is sign of coneron to all of us. Let us strike the balance by least intruding in respective field and keep some space for wild animal. The loss of human life is unbearable and the incident is very tragic one. We should at least live with utmost cautioned in area's which are dominated by wildlife. Number of Leopard in the state is reported sudden spurt in the state should be uniformily placed so that they could not make the human and pet animal their pray at least.
i belong to Mandi, The man animal conflict is sign of coneron to all of us. Let us strike the balance by least intruding in respective field and keep some space for wild animal. The loss of human life is unbearable and the incident is very tragic one. We should at least live with utmost cautioned in area's which are dominated by wildlife. Number of Leopard in the state is reported sudden spurt in the state should be uniformily placed so that they could not make the human and pet animal their pray at least.
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