Panic grips residents as leopard kills two cattle in Hasanur area in Erode

Panic has gripped villagers successful the Hasanur country of Thalavadi artifact arsenic a leopard has been repeatedly preying connected livestock implicit the past fewer days. Residents person urged the Forest Department to instantly seizure the carnal by placing a cage.

The incidents were reported from Ongalwadi village, which falls nether the Hasanur wood scope of the Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve, wherever leopards and elephants are known to predominant wood fringes. According to villagers, a leopard entered Ongalwadi precocious connected Sunday nighttime and attacked a calf that had been tied successful a cowshed down the location of a farmer, Mallesh.

Alerted by the continuous barking of his dog, Mallesh rushed to the spot and, utilizing a torchlight, saw the leopard mauling the calf. The carnal fled connected noticing the light. Neighbours aboriginal recovered the calf struggling for beingness and informed the Hasanur Forest Range office.

Farmers said the leopard has been moving astir Ongalwadi for the past 4 days. Adding to the fear, the leopard reportedly killed different calf successful the aforesaid colony connected Monday morning.

With repeated attacks connected livestock and its continued beingness adjacent quality habitations, villagers person demanded urgent involution by the Forest Department to guarantee nationalist information by capturing the leopard astatine the earliest.