Chennai, Dec. 7 -- The Tamil Nadu Government today announced constitutionof a sic-member Committee to strengthen long term Human Wildlife Conflictprevention in the Valparai Forest range in Coimbatore district, where a youngfive-year-old boy was mauled to death by a leopard at a tea estate last night.
The Committee was asked to report within two weeks.
A release from the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Forests saida family from Assam resides with three children (one girl and two boys) in a fourhouse labour line, situated inside the Iyerpadi Tea Estate belonging to a privatecompany.
At around 7.15 pm yesterday (06.12.2025) the children were playing in front oftheir house while the parents were inside. During this time, a leop...