Ahmedabad, March 11 A five-year-old boy was killed by a lioness in the Amreli district of Gujarat, a forest official said on Wednesday.
The incident occurred at Manavav village in the Dhari taluka on Tuesday evening.
The lioness attacked the son of a farm labourer from Madhya Pradesh. As people shouted for help, the feline left the injured child and fled, said Range Forest Officer Minesh Patel of Dhari.
The child, who suffered serious injuries, was rushed to a nearby hospital where doctors pronounced him dead, the official said.
The forest department later formed three teams and managed to capture the lioness late Tuesday night, he said.
Gujarat is the only home of the Asiatic lions. A census conducted in May 2025 recorded the presence of lions outside the Gir National Park in 11 districts, including Amreli, in the non-forested and coastal areas of Saurashtra.