Mumbai: Leopard attacks woman, she fends it off with stick

MUMBAI: In the fourth leopard attack in Aarey Colony, a woman resident was injured two days after a failed attempt to carry off a child. The incident on Wednesday occurred at Visava, close to Aarey Dairy.
CCTV footage shows the leopard lying in wait outside a house. A woman with a walking stick is seen coming out of the house and sitting on the verandah. As soon as she sat down she was attacked by the leopard. The woman, Nirmala Rambadan Singh (55), used her walking stick to fend off the leopard but suffered scratch marks on her face, chest and back.
Gajanan Hire, in-charge of Thane Forest Division which oversees Aarey Colony, said claw marks show the attack was by a sub-adult leopard.
“Soon after the first attack over a month ago, we sought permission from the Principal Chief Conservator of Forests to trap the animal. There’s protocol to be followed before we can lay the trap and which is being done.”

The forest department has set up around 10 camera traps around areas of recent attacks . “We’ve ordered for more camera traps to see if it is one sub-adult or more,” he said.