Six-year old leopard trapped in Nashik

NASHIK: A six-year-old male leopard was trapped early on Monday at Samangaon village, around 8km from Nashik Road area of the city. This is the second time that a leopard has been trapped in a fortnight.
Officials from the forest department had installed a cage in the area after a four-year-old boy was injured in a leopard attack here around a fortnight ago. Officials said that they managed to capture the big cat almost 11 days after a five-year-old female leopard was trapped in Jakhori village — around 6km from Samangaon village — on July 2.
“The health check up of the animal is being conducted and the leopard will be released after following the official procedure,” said officials.
Earlier, on June 16, a leopard killed a four-year-old girl in Babhaleshwar — just 2km away from Samangaon village on the Nashik-Pune Road.
On June 15, a 75-year old person was killed by a leopard in Donwade village, about 10km from Babhaleshwar village.
Since then, the forest department has installed 17 cages at various places in Donwade, Babhaleshwar and Samangaon villages. In the past 11 days, two leopards, including one on Monday, have been trapped.
Forest officials said that it was very difficult to ascertain whether these two were the same leopards involved in the previous three attacks.