In a scary incident, a four-year-old boy was mauled to death by a leopard in a village in Gujarat's Gir-Somnath district, said an official of the state forest department on Friday. The incident occurred on Thursday evening at Nava Ugla village under Una taluka.

Forest officers said Hasmukh Makwana, the four-year-old boy, was attacked by a leopard at around 3:30 pm on Thursday.

Hours after the incident, the department trapped a leopard from the same village and sent it to Jasadhar rescue centre in the Gir forest to find out if it was the same wildcat which killed the boy, said Chief Conservator of Forest, Junagadh Wildlife Circle, DT Vasavada.  

 “The child was injured on neck by a leopard while he was in the tur farm of Balubhai Navadiya along with his parents,” Dushyant Vasavada, Chief Conservator of Forests (CCF) of Junagadh Wildlife Circle said.

''Though the boy was rescued by their parents before the leopard could take him away, he eventually died due to injuries on the neck. ''Later, local forest staff set up cages to trap the animal. Hours later, a leopard got trapped in one of the cages,'' he said.

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