The 15-year-old boy, Vikram Chavda, was moving along other cattle grazers when the lion attacked him from behind. Chavda has been receiving treatment in a health centre in Visavadar and has been further referred to Junagadh civic hospital.
Even as growing population of Asiatic lions in Gujarat’s Gir is becoming deadly for humans as well as cattle, the state government is in no mood to transfer them to other states.
The Gujarat Forest Department's 2020-21 report states that in man-animal conflict, 12 people lost their lives and 70 were injured, whereas 3,927 cattle were killed or injured in the Junagadh wildlife circle, which includes the Gir lion .