Hajipur (Bihar): The forest department on Tuesday captured a leopard after it attacked and injured two persons in a village in Vaishali district.
The incident happened at Balua Basant village under the jurisdiction of Lalganj police station early in the morning, a forest department official said.
The leopard was hiding near a bund after attacking the villagers, the Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) of Vaishali, B B Pal, said.
A team of forest department officials from Patna, after six to seven hours of hard work, managed to tranquilise and capture the animal, the DFO said.
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The forest department was informed about the attack around 6 am on Tuesday, he said.
It is not known from where the leopard strayed into the village, the DFO said.
The villagers received minor injuries during the attack, the Sub-Divisional Police Officer of Hajipur, Raghav Dayal, said.
They were admitted to a local hospital, sources said.
PTI
