Wild video captured the moment a leopard charged out of the woods at a popular picnic spot in Shahdol, India, and attacked a man, named Akash, who escaped with minor injuries.
According to local reports, the leopard also severely injured a woman and a police officer in the terrifying animal encounter on Oct. 20 that sent dozens fleeing in panic.
A tragic stray dog attack in Budgam's Manchowa area, Central Kashmir, claimed the life of a 70-year-old man and injured four others early Sunday morning.
According to officials, the attack occurred around 6 am as locals were heading to their fields. Among the five injured was Khazir Mohammad Magrey, aged 70, who later succumbed to his injuries.
The other four victims have been admitted to a local hospital for treatment.
Residents are now urging authorities to address the stray dog menace, warning that such incidents may continue if no immediate action is taken.
They expressed that today's tragedy should serve as a critical wake-up call for officials to implement effective solutions.
Dean Narciso, Bailey Gallion Columbus Dispatch Fri, 18 Oct 2024 09:57 UTC
A woman was mauled to death by two pit bulls in the village of Ashville Thursday as those around her watched and screamed for help.
Jo Echelbarger, 73, was taken to Grant Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead shortly after 4 p.m.
Echelbarger lived in a condominium complex in the 600 block of Kildow Court on the village's north side, and she was gardening when two dogs broke loose from a nearby home and began attacking people, according to witnesses and a family member.
Pickaway County Commissioner Gary Scherer said the county dog warden, county prosecutor and city attorney will discuss whether to bring criminal charges in the case at a meeting on Monday.
Ashville police are handling the investigation but did not return calls for comment on Friday. Pickaway County Sheriff Matthew Hafey said the initial 911 call came in at 3:11 p.m. A second call followed about 15 minutes later.
Bert Cline, Ashville village administrator, called the incident "kind of a shock to the system," noting that dog attacks are rare in the community.
A tragic incident occurred in Rampura village, Molakalmur taluk, where an 11-year-old boy was fatally attacked by stray dogs. The boy, identified as Mithun, was walking to his tuition classes when he was bitten on his head, cheeks, and other parts of his body.
A local auto-rickshaw driver, Rajappa, intervened and rescued the boy from the attack. Mithun was immediately rushed to Rampura Hospital but unfortunately succumbed to his injuries while being transported to VIMS in Ballari for further treatment.
Rampura Police have registered a case and are investigating the incident.
Gayatri Vajpeyee The Hindu Fri, 11 Oct 2024 09:57 UTC
A 40-year-old woman was killed in a leopard attack in Pendhar village in Junnar on Wednesday. (
A 40-year-old woman was killed in a leopard attack in Pendhar village in Junnar on Wednesday.
This incident marked the seventh death in the Junnar forest division due to leopard attacks since March.
"It is expected that more leopard attacks might take place by the end of the year. It is a worrisome situation for the forest department as well as the concerned authorities and the locals," said Kumar Ankit, senior research fellow at the Wildlife Institute of India (WII), who has been working on the leopard project in Junnar since 2019, under the guidance of Bilal Habib, a senior scientist at WII.
Sharing insights from the data observations, Ankit said, that in places like Pauri Garhwal in Uttarakhand and others, including Junnar in Maharashtra, where humans and carnivorous animals coexist, we have seen a certain trend in such conflict incidents.
A minor girl was mauled to death by stray dogs in Awantipora area of south Kashmir's Pulwama district on Monday, officials said.
An official said that the girl was attacked and grievously injured by stray dogs outside her residence in Beighpora locality of Awantipora. He said that the girl was shifted to a nearby hospital from where she was referred to Srinagar, reported news agency KNO.
"Soon after reaching Srinagar hospital, she succumbed to her injuries." She has been identified as Zobia Gulzar (08) daughter of Gulzar Ahmad Naikoo of Beighpora.
Dogs in the village of Chulman in the Sakha Republic.
Dozens of residents of a small village in Russia's republic of Sakha (Yakutia) protested against local authorities on Wednesday after a 12-year-old local girl died from injuries sustained in an attack by a pack of stray dogs.
"We came here to demand at least some action," a local resident who attended the protest told the Sibir.Realii news outlet, adding that local head Stalik Deryagin "hasn't done sh**" to address residents' repeated complaints about packs of strays terrorizing the village.
"This is an issue [that has persisted for] several years, not months. Should we take up arms ourselves [to shoot the animals] now? They are forcing us to do this!" he said.
The Wednesday protest did not last long, as a squad of about 20 policemen and security forces officers soon arrived to disperse the crowd, eyewitnesses told Sibir.Realii.
Like other parts of Sakha and other regions of Russia, Chulman, a village of less than 10,000 people some 750 kilometers south of the republic's capital Yakutsk, has been grappling with a stray dog crisis for decades.
Have you ever heard anyone say that "Mother Nature is undefeated?" This video below is a rather good representation of that. A mother bald eagle was trying to protect her nest (perched in a tree in the Stearns Lake area) from a stalking red-tailed hawk, and little did she know, there was an even bigger threat that she could do nothing about.
In the blink of an eye, a lightning strike burst down and it sure seemed to be a direct hit on the nest. Bald eagle nests are known to be sizable, with some being more than four to five feet wide and two to three feet deep. And as you'll see in the clip that was captured by a wildlife camera set up to monitor the nest, the bald eagle home was disintegrated in an explosive fireball after being struck by the lightning.
A 59-year-old man was killed in a "horrific" attack by a pack of dogs in a back yard next to a house where two dozen of the animals were kept, police said Thursday.
Officers responding to a call found eight or nine mixed-breed pit bulls attacking James Provost of nearby Schenectady at about 6 p.m. Wednesday. One of the officers fired his weapon to stop the attack, killing one dog and dispersing the others, Albany Police Chief Eric Hawkins said at a news conference.
Provost was declared dead at the scene. A caretaker helped round up the surviving dogs, which were taken to an area shelter. Their fate will be determined by a judge, Hawkins said.
Hawkins said investigators were still trying Thursday to piece together key details. They didn't know why Provost was in the yard or how he got there, miles from his home. And they didn't know why the dogs' owner, who lives elsewhere, kept 24 mixed-breed pit bulls at the house in a modest section of Albany. Fifteen of the dogs were puppies.
Comment: An earlier report from the area: Woman killed by leopard in Pune, India - 5th such incident for district in 5 months