3 leopards captured after infant, old woman killed in Karnataka

Karnataka: The Karnataka forest department has captured three leopards, suspected to have carried away and devoured a sleeping boy and an old woman in the state's Ramanagara district in the last week, an official said on Monday. "We have captured three leopards, two male and one female. Male leopards aged about two years each and the female, four and half years respectively," Deputy Conservator of Forests, Ramanagara, Sadashiv N. Hegade told IANS. On May 9, a leopard took advantage of a door left ajar in a house in Kadiraiyanapalya village of Magadi taluk, to enter and carry away three-and-a-half-year-old Hemanth Kumar, sleeping with his parents and grandparents. In the similar fashion, on Saturday morning, 67-year-old Gangamma, sleeping outside her home, was also carried away by a leopard, killed and eaten. "The leopard took away the woman around 4 am," he said. Forest officials are awaiting the postmortem report of the leopard victims, and have decided to give a compensation of Rs 7.5 lakh each. (IANS) 

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