VADODARA: A three-month-old baby was killed by a leopard in the Timba village in Dahod district. A trap has been laid to capture the leopard.
The incident took place on Thursday night at the residence of Ramesh Tadvi in the village located in Limkheda taluka. Tadvi was not home and his wife was doing household chores when the baby boy Jayesh was on a cot in their house. The house did not have a door.
“The leopard may have entered the house to look for other animals that are kept inside the houses in this area. The child was on a cot near the place where the animals were kept and the leopard may have taken it away,” said deputy conservator of forests R M Parmar.
When the child went missing, the family and villagers started looking for it. It was on Friday that they found some clothes and other remains of the child in the forest and approached officials.
Parmar said that no other incidents of attacks on humans by leopards have been reported in the area in the recent past. He added that a cage had been put up in the village to trap the leopard. The cage has a goat as bait in it.
