Youth injured in leopard attack, seven lions found in cage kept to nab ailing lioness-cubs

Junagadh: A 30 year old man was injured in an attack by a leopard in Lalpur village of Visavadar taluka of Junagadh district late last night even as forest department teams found seven big-cats of a lion family nearby in the cages put in the vicinity of nearby Gir forest.

Naresh Bhimji Kuvad was working in his field on the outskirts of the village was attacked by the leopard. He was admitted to a hospital.

Meanwhile, forest department teams found a total of seven lions in cages put at another place to nab an ailing lioness and two of her cubs. Later four of them were released in the forest while the ailing lioness and the two cubs were taken to the animal care center at Shashan in neighbouring Gir-Somnath district.

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