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Villagers alerted forest officials after discovering a leopard carcass. Upon inspection, officials found porcupine quills in the leopard's mouth and back, suggesting it may have died from injuries sustained in a fight with a porcupine.

Villagers reported that a leopard emerged from the nearby forest and attacked their herd. Shepherd Srinivas managed to escape by swinging an axe he had with him, while the leopard fled with one of the goats.

In the wake of an increase in leopard attacks, forest officials advised the people to be alert and not to visit agricultural fields and interior areas alone

Farmer Kothagari Ramesh had kept his cattle in a shed on the outskirts of the village on Thursday night. When he returned to the shed on Friday morning, he found one of them dead.

Ramulu, a farmer along with a couple of shepherds from the village, was heading to his fields. Suddenly they noticed the movement of a leopard and immediately tried to capture the images in a mobile.

Commuters stunned as the leopard was spotted near Nagapuram gate in Havelighanpur mandal of Medak district.

It is said that commuters on the road captured the video of the leopard, which stood still as the vehicle lights focused on it.

A team of forest officials reached the spot and scanned the area, but could not find pug marks of a leopard.

Officials find no pug marks or scat, say going by victim’s version, it could either be a wild boar or wild animal

According to villagers, a farmer from the village, Dadige Laxminarsu left buffalo and calf in the cattle shed located in his agricultural field near Satyanarayanapalle on Saturday night.

After the leopard got trapped in one of the five cages set up by the forest department, officials shifted it to the Nehru Zoo Park on Friday.

The forest officials placed a few camera traps close to a nursery of the forest department at Ibrahimpur where the leopard movement was captured.

The leopard had strayed into the airport lands on Sunday. The surveillance cameras of RGIA captured images of the leopard's movement.

Infact, the leopard came close to one of the cages, with its movements being captured in camera traps. A goat has been kept in the cage as bait for the leopard and it might get trapped in a day or two, Ranga Reddy DFO Sudhakar Reddy said.

The leopard had entered the airport lands on Sunday and the images were caught in the surveillance cameras.

The leopard was sighted near the aircraft repair center located at the RGI Airport premises.

The incident, which happened in the Ibrahimpur forest block of Dubbak Forest Range in Siddipet, is said to have occurred about a month ago, but came to light on Sunday.

DCP (North) Manoj Kumar Meena stated that on Monday at 6:14 a.m., Wazirabad police station received a PCR call reporting a leopard entering a house in Jagatpur village.

Across Telangana, the leopard population came down from 334 in 2018 to 297 in 2022. On the other hand, in Amrabad, the population went up from 94 to 121 within the reserve limits

Madhya Pradesh houses the largest population of leopards in the country: 3907 (2018: 3421), followed by Maharashtra (1985), Karnataka (1,879) and Tamil Nadu (1,070).