Leopard enters village in Central Gujarat, injures 4 including forest official

Chhota Udepur: A leopard has entered a village in Chhota Udepur district in central Gujarat and attacked and injured 4 people including a forest official involved in rescue operation.

ACF Nilesh Pandya said that the leopard from Rangpur range of nearby forests had entered Moti Sadhali village in the morning and later entered a house and injured three people including two woman and an 18 year old boy.

He said that later the leopard entered another house in the village and when he and some other forest officials went in to the house it suddenly attacked him to causing minor injuries.

‘We have deployed two forest teams there and want the beast to get back to the forest at its own. We had also tried to tranquilize and cage the leopard but could not succeed so far,’ he said.

Till 5 pm in the evening it was in the same house, the forest team has cordoned it off and will remain there whole night if the need be,’ he said.

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