Gujarat’s Forest Department has launched a mega operation involving 150 officials, seven sharp shooters, set up 30 cages at different locations, 15 night vision cameras installed to either catch alive or kill a leopard that has claimed the lives of as many as 17 people, including two in as many days, in the Visavadar Bagasara forest area near Gir Forest in Saurashtra. The Forest Department issued shoot-at-sight orders after a leopard killed two persons since Thursday in Gujarat’s Amreli district. On Thursday, the animal killed Vaju Borad, a farm labour in a village in Bagasara taluka of Amreli district. The following day, another man was injured in a leopard attack in the same village. On Saturday, a big cat attacked another farm labourer from Rajasthan in Munjiyasar around 3.15 a.m. Later, the labourer succumbed to his injuries.“This leopard has terrorised their entire area in Visavadar and Bagasara talukas. We have been asking the Forest Department to get us rid of … [Read more...] about Shoot-at-sight orders issued for leopard in Gujarat
