A wild animal, alleged to be a leopard, took away a 12-year-old child named Sajeb of Gangabehar village while he was pushing his father’s bicycle on Saturday evening.The animal killed the child and his dead body was later recovered from a sugarcane field, about 500 meters away from the village, on Saturday night, the police said.
The animal killed the child and his dead body was later recovered from a
sugarcane field, about 500 meters away from the village, on Saturday night, the police said.
The victim’s father, Munavvar, said that he was carrying fertilizer sacks on his bicycle to his village while his son was pushing the bicycle to help him. The route passed through dense sugarcane fields.
A leopard hiding in a sugarcane field came out of its hiding and dragged Sajeb inside the cane fields, he added. After a hectic search, Sajeb’s dead body was recovered from a cane field.
A leopard hiding in a sugarcane field came out of its hiding and dragged Sajeb inside the cane fields, he added. After a hectic search, Sajeb’s dead body was recovered from a cane field.
During the meeting, the Director General of the India Meteorological Department briefed the committee about the current status of the deep pressure area on the Bay of Bengal which is likely to turn into “a cyclonic storm by 23rd October 2024 over east-central Bay of Bengal.”
“…it is very likely to move northwestwards and reach northwest Bay of Bengal off Odisha-West Bengal coasts by 24th October morning.
Divisional Forest Officer , South Kheri, Sanjay Biswal, confirmed the incident and said that forest teams had been rushed to the spot and efforts were on to identify the wild animal, which might be a leopard.
The second incident took place in Kurtaiha village under Padhuva police limits, where a three-year-old Riza Bano was killed in a wild animal’s attack. Her dead body was recovered floating in the Ghaghra river on Saturday. The village falls under buffer zone of Dudhwa Tiger Reserve .
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