Maneater leopard attacks a 32 year old man at Pauri road early this morning. Admitted to Srinagar base hospital
( Pictures taken from Srinagar Darshan)
After some days of pause the dreaded maneater leopard has again attacked a person early morning who is merely thirty two years old working as a daily wage labourer and subsequently living at Pauri road ahead of Ganga Darshan. He was attacked by the deadly maneater early morning when he went for the nature’s call from his temporary stay house ahead of Ganga Darshan at Pauri road. The hungry man-eater leopard clandestinely prowling for human prey pounced on the man and injured him running away after he made a huge noise in panic. The victim was first taken to the Samyukt hospital in the police van after the locals and police arrived and then sent to Base government hospital at Srinagar for city scan and other important tests. He was lucky that the maneater after attacking him went away otherwise he would have been brutally killed. He is currently being treated at the Base hospital Srinagar. It may be recalled that the increasing encroachment by human beings in the territory of this wild carnivores including deforestation, forest fires, and reducing their natural hunting ground and non availability of their preys etc are some of the pivotal reasons for the increasing attacks of man-eater leopard in human habitats which is terribly increasing day by day in Garhwal and Kumaon divisions of Uttarakhand. The man-eaters after tasting the human flesh by consuming human remains including increasing wild life and human interactions have also led to the increasing man-eater attacks becoming fatal most of the time. There have been several incidents of children and women being grabbed by maneaters even from House Compounds and killed brutally by dragging them to the jungles.
