Five-year-old boy mauled to death by leopard in Valparai tea estate

A leopard reportedly mauled to decease a five-year-old lad from adjacent his location astatine Iyerpadi beverage property successful Valparai connected Saturday night.

The lad was playing with his member and sister erstwhile helium was dragged by a leopard, according to the parents who were successful the location astatine the time

The property officer, who was informed astir the incident, alerted the Forest Department and a squad searched and located Saiful Alam’s assemblage successful the bushes. The boy’s assemblage was shifted to the Valparai Government Hospital wherever the post-mortem volition beryllium conducted connected Sunday morning, authoritative sources said.

Compensation volition beryllium provided to the household connected Sunday, sources added.

Officials said the section has been conducting consciousness programmes for the property workers and the managements to forestall beingness of children aft dark. The workers were inactive oblivious to the dangers, according to the department.