Striped Hyena
Striped Hyena
Four teenagers suffered bite wounds in what they claimed was an attack by a hyena in Tarsadi village near Kosamba early on Monday.

The four young boys were slepping outside their house when they were attacked by the wild animal. The victims claimed that it was a hyena that attacked them but forest department officials said that they are still verifying this as hyenas were not spotted here before.

The victims Sabir Shabbir Shah, Azim Shaikh, both aged 13 and Imran Shah and Abdul Gani Ali Mansuri, both 19-year-old, were sleeping outside their house in Chisti Nagar. In the early morning, the animal tried to drag away Sabir who suffered severe injuries in one eye. The animal escaped after the boys raised an alarm. The family members of the victims said that they boys went to sleep outside house after power failure at around 11 pm on Sunday.

Other boys were bitten on the hand. They were given treatment at a private hospital and discharged.

Meanwhile, a farmer from Tarsadi also told the forest officials that he had spotted a hyena in his field on Monday morning. The farmer said that the hyena tried to attack him but he chased it away with a stick.

Tarsadi municipality officials asked police and forest officials to look into the issue and trap the animal.

"We were informed by Tarsadi municipality and a team is camping at the spot to verify whether it was a hyena or some other animal that attacked the boys," said Puneet Nayyar, deputy conservator of forest, Surat.