This story is from November 30, 2020

Beed woman dead in leopard attack; big cat avoids capture

A woman was killed in a leopard attack on Sunday evening in Pargaon Jogeshwari village of Ashti taluka of Beed district, taking the total number of causalities in such attacks to three.
Beed woman dead in leopard attack; big cat avoids capture
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AURANGABAD: A woman was killed in a leopard attack on Sunday evening in Pargaon Jogeshwari village of Ashti taluka of Beed district, taking the total number of causalities in such attacks to three.
According to sources from the forest department, the middle-aged woman had gone to her cotton farm where the leopard attacked her.
“The latest cases of human-animal conflict in Ashti taluka are very unique.
The leopard is selective in attacking humans. The big cat did not harm any cattle which is a very strange behaviour, ” wildlife warden for Nanded division Atindra Katti said.
The leopard, which is being traced by over a dozen teams of the forest department, along with drones, remained elusive till Sunday night. The forest department which has deployed multiple teams in search of the leopard, has been facing public pressure over the repeated attack by the wild animal on villagers.
On Friday, a 10-year-old boy was mauled to death by a leopard in a farm in Ashti taluka of Beed district.
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