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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Environment
Rifat Fareed

Leopards snatching children as Kashmir man-wild conflict worsens

Haleema Begum shows a picture of her six-year-old daughter who was killed by a leopard near their home in Baramulla, Indian-administered Kashmir [Shuaib Bashir/Al Jazeera]

Uri, Indian-administered Kashmir – Parveena Ganai, 45, remembers the day a leopard killed her 14-year-old son Shahid Ahmad, his body later found in pieces near their village of Turkaanjan in Indian-administered Kashmir’s remote Baramulla district.

It was a bright Sunday morning on June 12 – a school holiday for the teenager. He got a haircut, took shower, ironed his school uniform and organised his books for the next day.

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