Leopard mauls six-year-old to dying in Balrampur; panic grips villagers | Lucknow Information
LUCKNOW: An eight-year-old boy, recognized as Vikas Chauhan, was mauled to dying by a leopard within the Hariya police station space of Balrampur district in UP on Thursday.
The incident was reported within the late night.
Worry gripped villagers after the incident and a workforce of police and forest officers is patrolling the world.
Police stated that the sufferer, son of Jagdamba Chuhan, had gone for some work close to a sugarcane area exterior the village round 6 pm.
A leopard hiding within the fields attacked him.
“Listening to the boy’s shrieks, many villagers rushed to the spot with sticks and commenced making a noise to scare away the large cat. Nevertheless, by the point the villagers reached they might solely spot a severed head of the boy. Later the members of the family arrived and took him to hospital,” stated SHO Hariya, Durvijay.
A police workforce reached the spot for conducting an inquest whereas the physique was despatched for a autopsy examination.
DFO Balrampur, Semmaran, stated that based mostly on pug marks it was confirmed that the leopard had killed the boy. “The forest division workforce is conducting a combing operation,” he stated. We have now put in a cage within the space to catch the leopard and requested the residents to be cautious, he stated.
