Imagine coming out of your house early in the morning just to stretch and seeing a leopard trotting towards you and thumping on the gate when you close it, this is what was happening in Lucknow for 3 days, till authorities captured the beast from in the middle of the city.
A team of forest officials restrained a huge leopard that had been roaming streets of Lucknow for three days attacking many people.
The leopard was recently observed prowling the streets of the state capital of Uttar Pradesh. As a result, several people in the Gudumba neighbourhood were attacked and terrorised. Locals assume the wild cat came into the city through the nearby Barabanki district’s woods.
CCTV cameras installed in Gudamba’s residential areas documented the leopard’s movements. On Twitter, multiple CCTV and phone camera clips of a leopard roaming the streets and terrorising residents were uploaded. Yesterday, the same leopard was shown in a viral video over a house’s wall and stealing a pet dog.
The leopard that had been on the prowl in #Lucknow since the past three days and also attacked several people, was finally captured by a team of forest officials on Monday.#leopardinlucknow https://t.co/25KJGnhrBS pic.twitter.com/34MUtHQtK1
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Leopard 🐆 in Lucknow. Panic among locals as leopard spotted in Lucknow. #forestdepartment #besafe #StaySafe #Lucknow #lucknowwale @myogioffice @myogiadityanath pic.twitter.com/1aXnTg8B6Q
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All the people living near
— شادين (@ishadain) December 27, 2021
Lucknow University (Second
Campus) or at any place in
Jankipuram extn.
|Please stay at home for
sometime as a LEOPARD has
been spotted in Jankipuram.
Search operation is going on,
till then without any official
news don't move out from your
home. pic.twitter.com/ujCyHp6iLq
According to media, the first victim was a resident of a school site in Kalyanpur, who received 32 stitches and sustained significant injuries. Local say, the stray animal injured seven individuals. Authorities became involved after reports of a leopard sighting spread throughout the area, and they began looking. Forest officials were originally unable in capturing the wildcat, despite completing a comprehensive search.
Residents were calmed and kept away from the leopard’s likely hiding place by police and forest department officers who arrived in the vicinity. Around midnight, the leopard was captured in a net erected in a ditch, but it escaped and clawed some people who had come to see the animal.
Residents of Lucknow breathed a sigh of relief Thursday when forest department officers nabbed a leopard that had been on the loose for three days. Panic seized Adil Nagar and Kalyanpur in Lucknow after a huge cat was observed walking through residential areas, allegedly injuring seven persons and killing a stray dog.
Finally, the leopard was apprehended and placed in a steel cage. It will then be reintroduced into the wild, according to forest officials.
Leopard sightings have been more prevalent in recent years as metropolitan areas continue to expand, encroaching on the deep forests that were formerly the leopard’s native habitat. This is the main reason for the frequent leopard sightings, according to wildlife activists and national park officials.
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