The latest attacks by wild animals took place in Sopore and Budgam districts. The injured was shifted to hospital for treatment.
“The boy, Tauqeer Fayaz Sheikh, was attacked by a bear outside his house Chrar-e-Sharief and in a similar incident, 55-year-old Mohammad Dilawar Bhat was critically injured at Ladhu-Ladoora village,” a police spokesman said.
Wild bears and leopards, whose populations have increased after a ban on hunting was enforced in Kashmir in 1970, and the loss of pine forests had already increased contact between animals and people.
Now wild animals are now wandering into Kashmir villages and killing people and livestock.
The increasing number of attacks by wild animals have forced Jammu and Kashmir authorities to set up controls rooms across the mountainous region to fight man-animal conflict which is taking a heavy toll in the strife-torn region.
Almost two to three man-animal conflict reports are received daily from different parts of the Valley.
(Free Press Kashmir)
