Leopard panic grips villagers of Kutrengapada
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By Express News Service
NUAPADA: Panic gripped residents of Kutrengapada inside Dharambandha police limits right here after a cow was reportedly killed by a leopard close to the village on Sunday.
In the morning, a villager, Agin Majhi, was taking his cattle for grazing when an unidentified massive cat attacked the herd and dragged a cow in direction of the forest. Though some villagers noticed the massive cat and tried to chase it with weapons, the animal fled into the dense forest.
A couple of hours later, a search social gathering went into the forest and located the cow’s carcass. Subsequently, villagers knowledgeable the Forest division. Though villagers claimed it to be a tiger, forest officers recognized the pug and nail marks on the cow’s carcass to be that of a leopard.
DFO Susil Tripathy mentioned, “We are yet to trace the big cat. Forest personnel have left the cow’s carcass at the spot. We have also installed trap cameras and deployed our squad there to see if the leopard comes back to feed on the carcass in the night.”
