Press Trust of India reports leopard crossed border at Taran and attacked group of people creating panic in village. PHOTO: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
An Indian leopard was shot dead on Monday after it crossed the border into Punjab and injured two villagers, the Press Trust of India reported.
According to reports, the leopard crossed the border at Taran on Sunday and attacked a group of people, creating panic in a village close to the border at Ferozewala, located 60 kilometres from Lahore.
Residents of the village shot the leopard dead after it mauled two people. The injured men were admitted to a hospital in Sheikhupura district, where officials describe their condition as critical.
This is the second instance of an Indian leopard straying across the border in the past few weeks. Last month, wildlife authorities captured an Indian leopard from near the international border after it strayed into Narowal sector.
The leopard has been kept at Lahore Zoo and the authorities are now trying to find a mate for it.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 18th, 2014.
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@Baji Please: Even a cornered home cat would pounce on you so natural from a wild animal to get nervous and frightened to attack people in order to escape out of the situation. The problem is our population is ignorant of how to act in those circumstances and the inefficiency of our wild life (forest) department and police which should have been called and acted with tranquilizers. One question for you how many such incidents you read coming from india where such animals are found in great numbers and incidents of people being mauled by lions, leopards and fields and villages been run over by elephants are pretty much a routine occurrence in forested regions ???
@ Babbarsher Khan CM Punjab instead of ordering the Autopsy on the dead animal, got its hide for presenting it as a gift to the Saudi Crown Prince. Must have received $ in return............!!
oh yeah...news is that India might be considering to award Param Vir Chakra to the martyred leapord who managed to critically injured two Pakistani in-house agents in his defense.
looks like the poor leopard was a tourist in Pakistan on Indian passport that Pakistanis shot in cold blood. Such unworthy of being called humans!
Must have been a RAW agent in disguise. Did our scientists perform autopsy on the dead "animal"?
@Baji Please:
You mean the Leopard? What does one expect from a big cat, if not maiming? Does this justify to kill a beutiful wild life who was most probably seeking asylum.
Rex Minor
Was the leopard muslim?
TTP's Shahidullah Shahid from an undisclosed location has claimed the responsibility of killing this leopard. He further said that they will continue killing leopards if their demands are not fulfilled.
This is sad and funny at the same time.
The Indians train and send terrorist leopards into Pakistan, while Pakistan trains and sends human terrorists into India!! The Indians are cowards to use poor animals to fight their wars!
@Mujibur: When leopards face lions, without a doubt they end up dying!
The leopard should have been sent to Waziristan for muzakraat
Reading all those comments gives me an impression that we all wants to live in "Our OWN Make Believe World".
The poor Leopard strayed into a village, villagers got scared cuz Leopard suppose to be in a Jungle not in a Village, what poor villagers should have done or could have done is irrelevant. They defended themselves according to available means. It happens in the West as well when Tranquilizers aren't readily available at the spot.
India, Pakistan, Border, Leopard, Villagers, Arms, Killed etc. All the tags are there for out of sync minds to rant unnecessarily.
RIP Leopard.
regards,
@Baji Please:
Thanks Baji, at least someone had the sense to read the entire article.
Funny news,An Indian leopard was shot dead by Pakistanis,Seriously folks does,wild animals have nationalities too.Poor animal must have been looking for prey.How could it know its hunting grounds are now divided by Most militarized border in the world.
What is everybody on about? Of course villagers are going to shoot down an animal that has attacked them. Be it Pakistan, India or America. Dont lose your mind in hating Pakistan :p
Oh hello? The tiger maimed two people hence the shooting. Is anyone reading here?
If you do not need your eyes to see, you will need them to cry. Jean Paul Sartre
This leopard was an Indian non-state actor, trained by RAW.
As a conservationist, I can say that this is fairly typical regardless of where in the world it happens --- when a dangerous animal attacks people in a village, they tend to respond with violence as that is often the only way they know how. They don't have tranquilizers hidden under their beds. This is a very sad incident... but such things happen in India and elsewhere all the time, particularly when human settlements start to encroach on animal territories. I hope the leopard could have been captured, but that is easier said than done when it almost kills two people (who may still not survive since their condition is critical).
Perhaps we should have given the man eater leopard a cup of tea and along with some more people to eat, where in the meanwhile we should have flown in a helicopter with wildlife experts to tranquilize the beast.
Or
We could have killed the animal
@Mujibur
People like you give us confidence that Indians are fools
Cheers!
lol as usual the law of jungle presides in this country ... BRAVO!! these in-humans can only kill unarmed animals and fear from terrorists ...... what a gentry we owe in this country ....
This is outrageous. The animal should have been captured or tranquilized. But everybody seems to be getting trigger-happy in Pakistan nowadays.....
Sad
Indian Leopard should be given a Bharat Ratna for dying in the cause of the motherland and eliminating a few future Jihadis.Even animals have stated to respond.The Godess Kali is awakening.
is there any thing called as wildlife department in pakistan....anyway when people themselves dont get justice in this "land of pure" what do we expect..... bunch of hooligans did what they are best ...MOB JUSTICE....pathetic....!!!... i dont understand how does everyone manage guns and bomb without managing food,cloth,shelter.....??
Here human beings are gunned down every moment what to talk about killing of a leopard~~
I wish the poor innocent animal knew he was treading into the most dangerous jungle in this world
The callous disregard for life is appalling ! No wonder Pakistan is in the state it is in.