“The leopard has continuously been victimising and terrorising the people
of Pancheshwor village. We requested the district forest office to allow us
to kill it but they refused, saying that the law does not provide such
permission,” Karki told AFP.
“Our request to have the leopard handed over to a zoo has also been
rejected. The villagers and police are trying hard to take that leopard into
custody.”
Villagers claim three more people have been killed by the leopard in nearby
settlements on the Indian side of the border.
“We are scared to walk alone,” Shiva Singh Saud, the headmistress of
a local primary school was quoted as saying in the Kathmandu-based Republica
newspaper.
“More people may be attacked if the leopard is not taken under control
immediately.”
Most of Nepal’s leopards are found on the sub-equatorial plains of the
southern Terai and in forested hill regions, where conflict with humans is a
perennial problem.
Seven people were killed by leopards in the same district last year, Republica
said.
And in October a leopard dragged away and killed a four-year-old boy in Bela
village, in the mountains of central Nepal, just 40 kilometres (25 miles)
east of Kathmandu.
The boy was the third villager in three months to be killed by a leopard.
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