Four people, including three children, were reportedly injured in separate animal attack incidents in Uttar Pradesh's Bahraich, officials said on Friday.
A 5-month-old baby was brought to hospital in critical state on Wednesday after she was attacked by a leopard on the previous night when she was sleeping with her mother outside her residence in Jamnagar.
A nine year old boy died in a leopard attack in the early hours of Wednesday in Pune district. The boy sustained serious neck injuries in the incident. The leopard menace has caused panic among the residents. The forest department officials visited the spot and took cognizance.
"The information that two cows were attacked by leopards turned out to be false. It was just a rumour. It's a very sensitive matter, and people are scared, so we are here to meet the villagers as well, and we are telling them how to coordinate in such circumstances," he told ANI.
"We had set up the cage for 4 days, and our team had been constantly combing and searching the area. Hence, we caught the leopard yesterday around 8:30 pm. No casualty has been reported," said the UP Divisional Forest Officer.
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Owing to the problem of leopard attacks in the Junnar taluka of Pune district, 10 leopards captured in the Junnar forest division have been sent to a shelter in Jamnagar, Gujarat, said Amol Satpute, Deputy Conservator of Forests, Junnar.
Panic gripped the Tikli Village of Gurugram in Gurgaon after a leopard that attacked and killed a cow in the area was spotted in CCTV footage, raising concern among the locals and posing a threat to the cattle in the area.