TNN | Updated: May 30, 2019, 13:29 IST
RAJKOT: A 52-year-old forest tracker was attacked by an injured adult male lion at the Vadal Animal Care Centre near Palitana in Bhavnagar
district on Wednesday morning. The tracker suffered injuries on his leg
and other parts of the body and is admitted to Sir T Hospital in
Bhavnagar.
The incident took place when forest tracker Tila Nanji
Dodia had gone to feed the lion who was brought to the centre with
injury in his legs.
According
to forest officials, the male lion about nine-years-old was brought to
this animal care centre for treatment after he was found injured by
forest officials.
Sources said that Dodia after placing the food
inside the lion’s cage forgot to close the gate after coming out. The
lion followed Dodia out of the cage without him knowing and attacked him
from behind.
Assistant conservator of forest (ACF) Bhavnagar V R
Rathod said, “The lion’s instinct was to get away out of the cage. When
it saw cage door open it came out and the first person in saw was
tracker Dodia whom it attacked believing it to be a potential threat.”
The
tracker fell down and tried to save himself with a stick that was in
his hand. The lion then left Dodia and started to look for a way out
into the open forest.
But since centre is has a hight compound wall
the lion could not find an opening. Meanwhile, the tracker ran to his
cottage nearby and informed others. The 2-3 persons inside the campus
who came to help Dodia also informed the 108 emergency ambulance
service. The ambulance entered the premises from back gate and took
Dodia to the hospital.
However, the lion kept moving inside the
campus. The veterinary doctor called to tranquillize the lion took
nearly two hours reach as he was engaged in similar work far away.
The
doctor and other foresters came in two vehicles inside the compound and
fired the tranquillizer shot on the lion. The wild cat was caged after
it got unconscious.
In November last year, two lions had killed a forest labourer and injured one other in Devaliya Safari park of Gir forest.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/rajkot/injured-lion-attacks-forest-tracker-inside-animal-care-centre/articleshow/69568640.cms
No comments:
Post a Comment