Leopard attacks family in Vellore district, forest officers capture and tranquillise it
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All three members of the family suffered accidents and have been hospitalised, police mentioned
Three members of a family, together with two ladies, have been attacked by a leopard that entered their home in Kalarpalayam in Gudiyatham in Vellore district, throughout the late hours of Wednesday. All three sustained accidents and have been hospitalised. On Thursday morning, Forest Department officers managed to tranquillise the large cat, trapped inside the home. It was taken to a forest on the Tamil Nadu -Andhra Pradesh border to be launched.
According to sources, Prema,40, and her kids Manohar, 20, and Mahalakshmi, 14, have been sleeping inside the home, in Kalarpalayam, Erthangal village, in Gudiyatham taluk. They had left the primary door open for air flow. It is suspected that round midnight, the leopard entered the home and attacked the family. In panic, the three ran out of the home and closed the primary door and the animal was trapped inside.
Police and Forest Department officers have been knowledgeable concerning the incident and they rushed to the spot. The injured have been taken to the hospital and are present process therapy.
A particular workforce from the Forest Department from Hosur later got here to the village. “Since the animal was hiding in one of the rooms, the Forest officials tried different methods to make it come to the hall so that they could shoot it with the the tranquilliser. Even a battery-operated toy car was used for this purpose. Finally, they drilled a small hole in the rearof the house and the animal, probably scared of the noise, ran into the hall. It was then tranquillised,” mentioned a police officer.
Forest officers checked its situation and then carried the animal out in a stretcher. “They transferred it into a cage and kept some water for it to drink. The animal was then taken into the forest, near Sarangal on the Tamil Nadu – Andhra Pradesh border, and will be released after checking its health condition once again,” added the officer.
Residents mentioned that that is the primary time a wild animal has entered a village in Gudiyatham taluk. “Five years ago, a deer came into the Gudiyatham town. These animals stray into our village from Mordana forest,” mentioned Mahalingam, a resident of Erthangal village.
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