In India, a 3-year-old boy was dragged from the farm where he lived with his family by a lion. Authorities in the country searched the Ghanshyam Nagar area of Savrkundla in hopes of finding the boy still alive until police officers found his body parts.
Nitin Rakeshbhai Mehda lived with his family in an area that divided the urban area and a vast plantation area. His torso and arms were not found, according to Indian police, who found the boy’s head and parts of his legs. According to authorities, this means it was swallowed by a lion.
The boy disappeared around 6pm on Tuesday (25) as the family of migrant rural workers from Madhya Pradesh was returning home.
Forest workers set traps to catch the cat. But to date, the traps have not caught the lion.
According to the Indian newspaper The Times of India, the attack is the second of its kind in the past six weeks in Gujarat, India’s only home of Asian lions.
A third case was recorded in September when a lion was killed in Amreli district of Gujarat after attacking 15-year-old Rahul Meswaniya on a road.
The attack in the village of Vavdi, near the Gir National Park lion sanctuary, took place because authorities believed the boy did not know the area. A lioness attacked him while he was running on the road.
At the time, forestry official Jayan Patel told local news site The National that the animal “must have seen it as an attack.”
The area where the lion attacked the young is in a “buffer zone” about 30 kilometers from the conservation area.
Patel added that the boy came from a family of migrant workers unaware of the local wildlife.
He said residents of the region’s “dozens of villages” could “coexist with animals”.
Lions usually prey on local farm animals, but people living in the Amreli region are often the victims of these animals.
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source: Noticias
