Junnar/Shirur: Vikas Bombe watched helplessly as a leopard grabbed his 13-year-old son, Rohan, on 2 November. There was nothing he could do to save the boy.

“I was right there, just 20 steps away. When I ran towards the leopard, it turned him over and dragged him into the field,” Vikas told ThePrint, standing outside his mud-and-brick house.

“I carried him out in my arms. I was drenched in his blood. His slippers are still in the open field where he was attacked. You can find his clothes in the sugarcane field where it dragged him,” he added. Show Full Article

For months now, terrified villagers like Bombe in Junnar and Shirur talukas on the outskirts of the bustling city of Pune have been living in complete fear that a leopard may emerge from the sugarcane fields and attack them.

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