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The three-year-old son of a ranger has been snatched and eaten by a leopard at a safari park in Uganda.

The toddler was being looked after by a nanny in unfenced staff quarters at a safari lodge in Queen Elizabeth National Park when the attack occurred.

Wildlife authority spokesman Bashir Hangi said the child had followed the nanny outside on Friday night when the big cat struck.

The leopard snatched the three-year-old, who has not been named, and dragged him into the bush.

His remains were found the next day and the big cat is now being hunted so that it can be removed from the wild.

(Image: Queen Elizabeth National Park)

The park ranger told AFP: "The maid was not aware the child followed her.

"She heard the kid scream for help, she intervened but it was too late the leopard had vanished with it in the bush and a search was mounted until we got the skull the next day.

"The hunt is on with the intention of capturing the leopard and removing it from the wild because once it has eaten human flesh, the temptations are high to eat another human being, it becomes dangerous."

(Image: Queen Elizabeth National Park)

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The fatal attack comes just a week after a British safari park owner was mauled by a lion in South Africa.

Mike Hodge, 71, escaped with a broken jaw after being pounced on by the big cat at Marakele Animal Sanctuary in Thabazimbi.

Keepers shot the lion, Shamba, dead after it launched the terrifying attack.

The incident was filmed by a tourist as Mr Hodge showed guests around the park.

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Bernadette Maguire told local media the family were "devastated" after the lion, which they had raised from a cub, was killed.

Last month, two German tourists survived after a leopard pounced on their campervan as they spent the night in Kuiseb Canyon, Namibia.

The big cat managed to jump through the open window of the parked van before biting the head of tourist Hardy Specker.

A struggle then ensued and only ended several minutes later when she poked the predator in the eye.

Today footage emerged of the moving wedding ceremony of a woman and her British groom getting married just days after her arm was bitten off by a crocodile.

Former national tennis player Zanele Ndlovu was canoeing on the Zambezi with her Brit fiance Jamie Fox when they were attacked.

Her right arm was torn off and her left hand savaged before she was rescued.

But despite the horrific ordeal the pair married just days later in a remarkable service in Bulawayo.