In self-defence, leopard killed by locals in Pulwama village

PULWAMA — A leopard was killed by locals after it attacked and injured a person in Pathan village of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Wednesday.

Locals said that a leopard attacked a local, namely Bilal Ahmad, who had gone to his field in the morning. In the meantime, locals gathered at the scene and killed the leopard in retaliation.

Bilal was injured in the attack and was subsequently shifted to a local hospital for treatment.

Later, a team of Wildlife Department visited the spot of incident and took the dead animal into its possession.