The Forest department on Friday captured a leopard that had terrorised the people living at Dhoni near here for the past two months. The three-year-old male leopard was trapped in a cage set up in the compound of a house where the animal had reached the previous night.
The leopard had emerged several times and attacked goats, cows, and poultry. On Thursday, it attacked the chicken at one Liji Joseph’s house. Following people’s pressure, forest officials set up a cage at Liji Joseph’s house and the leopard was caught.
Puduppariyaram grama panchayat member Unnikrishnan suffered scratch wounds on his arm when the leopard attacked him while removing the cage. He was admitted to hospital. His wounds are not serious.
