Balasore: Four members of a family were injured as a leopard attacked them in Odisha’s Balasore district Saturday, police said. The incident took place at Gada village in Khaira area of the district when the four were working in a farmland.
The leopard suddenly came out of a bush and pounced on the woman. When the three others came to her rescue the leopard attacked them too before running back from where it had come, they added.
All the injured were admitted to Khaira hospital but the woman was shifted to the Bhadrak District Headquarter Hospital for better treatment, police said.
A forest department team is conducting a search operation in the area to locate the leopard, Soro Forest (wildlife) Range officer Manoranjan Nayak said.
A large number of local people also gathered in the area to find the tiger, making the task of the forest department personnel difficult, Nayak said.
PTI