Telangana: Leopard attacks two in Nalgonda as forest officials try to catch him

Ch Sushil Rao / TNN / Updated: May 28, 2020, 14:10 IST

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Telangana: Leopard attacks two in Nalgonda as forest officials try to catch him

The operation to rescue the leopard is still on.

HYDERABAD: Two persons were injured in a leopard attack in Nalgonda district on Thursday morning. Forest officials were trying to catch the leopard whose leg had got stuck in the fencing around a farmer’s field at Rajampet Thanda in Marriguda mandal. When early in the morning, the farmer noticed the leopard , he alerted officials who rushed from Hyderabad to catch it.
The forest officials also used tranquilizers to calm down the leopard but much to their surprise, the leopard chased them and jumped on one of them who was injured.

Another person was also injured at the site. Hundreds of villagers came from the surrounding areas when they got to know that a leopard had been sighted at the village and was being caught.
Just when forest officials thought the tranquiliser would have its affect on the leopard and that they could cage it and take it back into the forest, the leopard leapt on them. The leopard then went underneath a vehicle that the forest officials had come in. Cautious forest officials are on the job of rescuing the leopard even as hundreds of villagers ran in different directions when the leopard lunged at one of the forest staff.
The operation to rescue the leopard is still on. Four months ago, in the same area, another leopard had been rescued by the forest officials.

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Ch Sushil Rao

Sushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyderabad. He began his journalism career at the age of 20 in 1988. He is a gold medalist in journalism from the Department of Communication and Journalism, Arts College, Osmania University, Hyderabad from where he did his post-graduation from. He has been with The Times of India’s Hyderabad edition since its launch in 2000. He has also done an introductory course in film studies from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, and also from the Central University of Kerala equipping himself with the knowledge of filmmaking for film criticism. He has authored four books. In his career spanning 34 years, he has worked for five newspapers and has also done television reporting. He was also a web journalist during internet’s infancy in the mid 1990s in India. He covers defence, politics, diaspora, innovation, administration, the film industry, Hyderabad city and Telangana state, and human interest stories. He is also a podcaster, blogger, does video reporting and makes documentaries.

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