Leopard scare: Forest dept sets up camera traps

Coimbatore: The forest department has set up four camera traps in Athimanthaiyanur village near Velliankadu in Karamadai to monitor a leopard on the prowl.
The big cat killed a calf and injured a cow on Saturday around 6.30pm, a forest department official said. “It attacked another calf on Sunday morning. The leopard had earlier killed two pet dogs on a farm owned by Mettupalayam MLA A K Selvaraj. The MLA informed Karamadai forest range officer E N Manoharan about the incident on October 24 and urged him to take necessary steps. We verified the presence of a leopard after finding pugmarks and placed two camera traps near the farm on Friday,” he said.
Two more camera traps were placed in the village on Sunday, district forest officer T K Ashok Kumar said. “A frontline staff was deployed in the village for night patrol. Villagers were advised not to venture out of their houses after sunset.” tnn