New Delhi (AP) – A leopard injured at least 15 people in an Indian city. At the time of the attacks, the animal had likely been feeding in the town of Jorhat in Assam state since the start of the week, a forestry official told The Times of India on Tuesday. There is a forest nearby.
In a video shared by Indian news agency ANI, the predator can be seen jumping over a fence and then onto a car. A hospital spokesman told local media that the injured were taken to hospital with bite wounds.
The animal was probably injured by humans
The animal was finally captured on Tuesday, as Wildlife Trust of India chief Rathin Barman told the ‘New Indian Express’. Several fractures were then discovered on one of the legs of the animal. These would be treated accordingly and were probably caused by people attacking the animal. Barman suspected that the animal was also behaving aggressively because of this.
In India, there are always conflicts between humans and wild animals such as leopards and tigers living freely in the forests. With the deforestation of forests, human settlements sometimes move very close to the habitat of predators. This can lead to the death of these people or their livestock – and people then kill the animals, partly out of revenge.
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