Mother’s Day: Mother fights with leopard to save son

13-05-2010
Mother's Day: Mother fights with leopard to save son
Divya Bhaskar
Briefly translated from Gujarati

Ikbal Saheli and his family lives at Shirvan village in Talala Taluka. Yesterday night they were watching India – Srilanka match when lights went off. Family kept door open and went to sleep. In mid-night at about 1AM, leopard entered the house and picked – up his 10 year old son Zakir. Immediately, Fatma mother of Zakir, got up and threw chair at the leopard. Leopard injured the boy on neck and ran away. Boy was taken to hospital for treatment.