Animal attack: Jackal injures three villagers

Jackal entered a house to allegedly attack the hens.

ABBOTTABAD: Three villagers, including two women, were seriously wounded when they were attacked by a jackal in a remote village of Galiyat. On Thursday, Master Ali Khan, a resident of Chuwaila village in Pattan Kalan union council, told the media that his wife Sughra Bibi, daughter-in law-Naseema and 14-year-old nephew Sajjad were home on Wednesday afternoon when a jackal entered the premises to allegedly attack the hens. When the women came to rescue their livestock, the animal attacked them. Khan said villagers reached their house after hearing the commotion but the jackal had run away, adding the injured were taken to a hospital in Muzaffarabad where Naseema’s condition is critical.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 14^th, 2014.