Posted on 02/09/2012 12:46:06 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
A man-eating leopard has claimed its fifth victim in just two months after dragging away and devouring a 14-year-old girl in Nepal.
...In the latest attack, the unnamed teenager was cutting grass in the forest near her home in Baitadi district, on the border with India, when she was attacked by the animal, said Bishnu Bahadur Karki, a local deputy superintendent of police.
"The locals found the body torn into pieces and eaten below the neck at the forest area yesterday," he told AFP.
Karki said three young girls and a 35-year-old pregnant woman had been killed in the weeks leading up to yesterday's attack.
Police believed the same animal was responsible for all the deaths.
"The leopard has continuously been victimising and terrorising the people of Pancheshwor village. We requested the district forest office to allow us to kill it but they refused, saying that the law does not provide such permission," Karki told AFP.
"Our request to have the leopard handed over to a zoo has also been rejected. The villagers and police are trying hard to take that leopard into custody."
Villagers claim three more people have been killed by the leopard in nearby settlements on the Indian side of the border.....
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
What a shame, I had forgot about him getting eaten.
Very simple. Posters are sorry for the loss of the girl but are consoled by the fact that leopards are an endangered species and human beings aren’t.
Poor kid. RIP.
Somebody translate shoot, shovel and shut up into Nepalese.
How do they shoot with a garden stick?
They need to surround it and light a ring of accidental lightning fire..
There ya go.
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