Overview
- Forest officers in Gujarat confirmed that Riya Salkar, attacked near her home in Dang’s Daher village on January 26, died during treatment at Valsad Civil Hospital.
- In the Bahraich district of Uttar Pradesh, officials said a leopard dragged four-year-old Anushka from a courtyard near sugarcane fields and she died while being taken for care.
- Villagers in both incidents chased the leopard with sticks or by raising an alarm, leading the animal to release the child and flee.
- Dang authorities installed six cages based on pugmarks to try to trap the leopard, with no capture reported so far.
- Bahraich officials intensified patrolling with four teams, inspected the site, provided Rs 10,000 in immediate assistance to the family, and sent the body for post-mortem.