Woman killed by sloth bear in Gujarat's Dahod

VADODARA: A 42-year-old woman lost her life in a sloth bear attack in the Bara range of Sagtada on Friday afternoon. Sanjali Rathwa, a resident of Amlipani village in Devgadh Baria taluka of Dahod, had gone to the forest to graze her cattle.
A sloth bear suddenly attacked and pushed her to the ground. Before she could react, it already injured the woman on her throat, head and face killing her on the spot.
“During this season, sloth bears babies are young and so mother bears become aggressive.
The woman may have unknowingly ventured near the babies making the bear aggressive,” said R M Parmar, divisional forest officer (DFO), Devgadh Baria.