Eight-year-old child suffers jaguar attack in the Munduruku Indigenous Land, in PA

According to residents of the area, the child was accompanied by his grandparents in the Cajual and Patati villages when he walked away for a few seconds to go to a stream, at which point he was attacked by the animal.

Family members reported that the girl is hospitalized in serious condition in the ICU of the Tapajós Regional Hospital, in Itaituba, a city neighboring Jacareacanga. The injuries were concentrated in the head region.

The rescue operation was complex: the Itaituba Indigenous Health District took the victim by plane to a certain point, so that he could then go by plane to the health unit.

Following the traditions of the Munduruku people, the jaguar was captured and sacrificed in front of the village.