Abandoned baby survived with female cop’s breastfeeding dies
Bengaluru, June 17: An abandoned baby boy survived after a female cop breastfed it, died at Indira Gandhi Pediatric hospital at Jayanagar here on Sunday.
Hospital sources said that the baby succumbed to the head injury and umbilical cord infection. Authorities of child care centre on Hosur road in the city informed the Electronic City police about the death of the child.
The newborn baby, might be a few hours old, which was dumped in a rubble near a construction site, was rescued by the Electronic City police. Later, a female cop DS Archana, attached to the police station, breastfed the baby and nurtured it. On Sunday, Archana was asked to go to hospital and verify the situation. But when she had been to the hospital, she found that the baby boy succumbed to the injury and infection.
When she was informed about the death of the child, Archana was grief stricken and crying. After the child was handed over to the child care centre, the child was suffering with serious health problems. So, the baby was admitted to the hospital for treatment.
Archana, a mother of five-month-old child, got appreciation from Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy, Police Commissioner and general public for protecting the baby which was found near the construction site on June 1. After saving the baby, she got the treatment to the baby in a nearby hospital. Electronic City police booked a case in this regard.
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Woman mauled to death by leopard near Bengaluru
Bengaluru, Nov 18: A 52-year-old woman was mauled to death by a leopard near here, officials said on Monday.
Kariamma had gone to cut grass at an agricultural field near her home at Kambalu, Gollarahatti, in Nelamangala taluk in Bengaluru Rural district on Sunday evening when the incident happened, they said.
The field, where she was working, was adjacent to a forest which is frequented by leopards, and warnings were also issued to villagers in recent times to not venture into the vicinity. There were instances of leopard killing dogs and other strays, a senior forest officer said.
"The woman, who is into rearing cattle, went to the agricultural field to cut grass and was allegedly dragged by the leopard into the forest area where the big cat mauled her to death and consumed parts of her body from head to chest," he said.
When she did not return, her family members went searching for her and discovered her half-eaten body and reported it to the forest officials, he added.
A 30 member team of leopard task force, 30 staff and 10 officers of the forest department reached the site along with forensic experts to take samples of the hair, blood stains and footprints of the leopard in order to catch the big cat, the officer said.
"Twenty huge cages have also been installed in and around the area in an attempt to catch the leopard involved in the killing," he said.
