© APThe animal jumped over a wall when forest officials tried to tranquilize it.
Residents in the city of Jalandhar notified police when they saw the large cat inside a house. When forest officials arrived, they tried to tranquilize it, but it escaped over a wall and into the village, sending locals running for their lives.
The animal injured four people, including animal control officials, before being locked inside a second house. The operation to contain it is still underway, as another expert team is coming from a nearby village to assist the officials.
© PTIA leopard prepares to attack men after straying into a residential area in Jalandhar on Jan. 31, 2019.
Videos from the incident show the quick creature darting into an enclosure and pouncing on one man as a frenzied crowd runs away.
Confrontations between Indians and wild animals are reportedly on the rise, as more people have begun moving nearby and sometimes inside nature reserves.
Of course, if everyone had simply gone inside, she/he would have found it's way out of the village; which it clearly is trying to find a way out of, but humans - being, mostly, herd animals, have to go out and try to film it; and then RUN from it! Idiots!
I sure hope the leopard gets out of there OK.
R.C.
P.s. for the price of two or three of those ubiquitous cell phones, every village like this could be equipped with a trained wildlife manager who is a competent shot with a tranquilizer gun.
But the PTB do NOT want Indians - or anyone anywhere - to become individually competent with guns.
*(I can't believe ANYone would be stupid enough to run from it. That just lets it know which is its next target.)
RC