leopard attack

Gondia, Apr 11 A 7-year-old boy was killed in a leopard attack in the Arjuni Morgaon tehsil of the Gondia district, a forest department official said on Saturday.The incident took place around 8 pm on Friday when Prajwal Govardhan Meshram was playing in front of his house in the Dhabetekdi...

Balrampur (UP), April 10 A 45-year-old man was killed in a leopard attack in a forest area adjacent to the Rehra village in Balrampur district of Uttar Pradesh on Friday, officials said.The victim, identified as Harikant Yadav, had gone to collect flowers in the nearby Sohalwa forest area in...

Pauri, April 3 – A four-year-old girl was killed in a leopard attack in the Pauri district of Uttarakhand, officials said on Friday.The incident occurred around 9 pm on Thursday in the Bhatkot village in the Pokhra area, where the child, Drishti Rawat, was having dinner with her sister and...

Lakhimpur Kheri (UP), March 29 Days after a seven-year-old girl was killed in a leopard attack here, the forest department has captured the big cat suspected of being involved in the attack, officials said on Sunday.The leopard was trapped in a cage in the Sinhauna village of the Singahi area...

Bijnor (UP), March 28 A 57-year-old woman was killed by a leopard while she was working in a field near a forest with her husband, police said on Saturday.The incident took place at Hidayatpur Chauhadwala village in the Afzalgarh area on Friday evening.According to Forest Ranger Pradeep...

Lakhimpur Kheri (UP), March 25 A seven-year-old girl was killed in a leopard attack in the Sidhauna village within the Dudhwa National Park on Wednesday night, officials said.The girl, identified as Simran, was reportedly sitting with her family inside their farmhouse in the village when the...

Lakhimpur Kheri (UP), March 21 (UP) – The carcass of a leopard cub was recovered from a field in the Samapurnanagar range of the Dudhwa buffer zone on Saturday morning. Forest officials attributed the death to an attack by another leopard.Kirti Chaudhary, Deputy Director of the Dudhwa buffer...

Shivamogga (Karnataka), March 20 – A 27-year-old veterinarian died after being attacked by a hippopotamus at the Tyavarekoppa Tiger and Lion Safari in Shivamogga on Friday, while receiving treatment at the zoo hospital.Dubbing the incident as "unfortunate," State Minister for Forest, Ecology...

Shimla, March 11 An 18-year-old student in Himachal Pradesh's Solan district defended himself against an attack by a leopard by using his bare hands and smashing the animal's jaws with stones, killing it.The second-year student at the Industrial Training Institute (ITI) was rushed to the Arki...

Pauri (U.K.d), March 10 A man was killed by a leopard in a village here, prompting authorities to issue orders for the animal's capture.The leopard attack occurred late Monday evening near the Jamla village, 10 km from the district headquarters, where the leopard attacked 48-year-old Prakash...

Bahraich (UP), March 7 An eight-year-old boy was killed in an attack by a leopard near the Katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary, prompting protests by angry villagers, forest officials said on Saturday.The incident took place on Friday evening in the Karikot village, under the Nishangarha forest...

Lakhimpur Kheri (UP), March 3 A 14-year-old boy was killed in a leopard attack in the buffer zone of the Dudhwa Tiger Reserve here on Monday night, officials said.The body was recovered Tuesday morning near a railway track near Khairatiya village in the north Nighasan range of Dudhwa...

Jaipur, February 28 A 42-year-old farmer was killed in what is suspected to be a leopard attack near the Sajjangarh Sanctuary in Udaipur district, Rajasthan, police said on Saturday.The incident occurred in a village within the Badi gram panchayat area on Friday night, they said.The body of...

Surat, February 19 A 71-year-old farmer was killed on Thursday by a wild animal, suspected to be a leopard, in the Surat district of Gujarat, according to a police official.The farmer was working on his farm in the Bodhan village of the Mandvi taluka when the incident occurred around 1:45 pm...