A fourteen-month-old baby boy was devoured by a jackal while her mother was working in a field, near here on Thursday.

Siddamma, a resident of Belur (J) village, had left her baby sleeping on a gunny

A youth playing cricket at Perungudi on Sunday mistook a jackal for a dog and was bitten after he made an attempt to chase the wild animal.

Returning after a game, Santosh sighted the animal resting