Animals
The video of the attack in Visva Workers Colony at 7.45 pm has since gone viral. It shows the woman, identified as Nirmaladevi Rambadan, sitting in the backyard of her house, unaware that the big cat is watching her movements. While she managed to fight off the leopard with a walking stick, she was injured in the incident and has scratch marks on her chest, face, and back. She was rushed to a hospital.
This is the third leopard attack in the area within a week in Aarey, an urban forestland that borders Sanjay Gandhi National Park. A four-year-old and a three-year-old were earlier rescued by local residents from leopard attacks.

Authorities did not know what type of shark it was but said the beach would be closed for at least two days (stock image)
The surfer, identified by friends as Eric, was bitten on his thigh while in the sea near Bodega Bay around 9am on Sunday.
The man, in his 30s, was with a group of surfers off Sonoma County's Salmon Creek Beach when the shark bit him on the thigh, according to the Bodega Bay Fire Protection District.
His fellow surfers helped get him to shore and bystanders applied first aid until emergency crews arrived and he was airlifted to hospital, KTVU-TV reported.
"The bear hid in a nearby bush after the attack," said Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Dan Bahadur Thapa. As the incident spreaded panic in the village, the authorities are trying to calm the people and normalize life in the area, according to DSP Thapa.
The bear had entered the villages of Kumdi and Phai. A team of security personnel had reached the spot as soon as they got the news that a bear had killed a person. The locals had demanded immediate control of the bear and killing it.
Officers were called to the 300 block of Westmoreland Street shortly after 10:30 a.m. on a report that a child was attacked by a pit bull, according to an Akron police media release.
When they arrived, officers found the little girl critically injured.
She was rushed to Children's Hospital, where she died, the release said.
The incident occurred in a cemetery, and was recorded by a local who could be heard being extremely puzzled at the sight of hundreds of dead (or nearly dead) avians on the ground.
Reports coming from the area indicated that the mass die-off happened immediately after a period of rainfall and heavy wind, and some social portals even guessed that it was the weather conditions that had caused the phenomenon.
Scientists are urgently investigating the cause of up to 7,000 deaths of black-necked grebes, sea doves, and gulls.
Disturbing videos show the dead birds along the Arabat Spit and Sivash Bay in the Azov Sea.
Harrowing footage shows one tragic bird still alive but with evident damage to its nervous system, losing its orientation.
Official sources said that the man identified as Abdul Rasheed Bhat was attacked and grievously injured by the bear in his native village of Soafshali Kokernag, reported news agency GNS.
Soon the locals shifted him to nearby hospital where doctors declared him brought dead on arrival.
A police official confirmed the death of the man due to attack by the wild animal.
The owner of Paardenrusthuis Ogier, a kind of retirement home where old horses spend their last years, happened to be in the pasture when it happened. The weather suddenly turned bad at around 2:00 p.m., he said to the newspaper. The horses, some 26 in total, gathered together and walked into the meadow. "Horses usually stand with their behinds against the wind so that their heads don't get wet," the owner explained.

Photos of two dogs seized by Coweta County animal control as investigators worked to determine how a man died at the home.
An autopsy confirmed the cause of death as a dog attack. Investigators say the evidence indicates the man was inside where the dogs were located at some point but died outside the home.
Investigators say the homeowner doesn't know the man or why he would be in his home.
The body of a seven-foot-long dolphin was found floating on Kuakata beach in Patuakhali on Wednesday.
Locals spotted it in the second Jhaoban area, about five kilometres east of the Kuakata Zero Point.











Comment: Also in Kashmir 4 days earlier a woman was seriously injured in another bear attack.