Leopard mauls 82-year-old woman to death in Pune district
An 82-year-old woman was killed in a leopard attack in the early hours of Friday in Inamgaon village, located in the Shirur Forest Range of Pune district of Maharashtra, a forest official said. According to the official, Lakshmibai Baban Bhoite was asleep on the front porch of her house at Kaul Vasti on Nalge Mala Road around 4.30 am when the wild cat attacked her, PTI reported. “The leopard initially targeted a dog. When the dog escaped, the big cat turned its attention to the elderly woman. It dragged Bhoite across the tar road behind her house. It pulled her nearly 700 feet into a nearby sugarcane field, where her body was later found,” the official said. “The incident was reported to the Shirur Forest Officer in Pune at around 6.45 am by local residents. A team then rushed to the spot. The woman’s body has been sent to the Rural Hospital at Nhavare for post-mortem,” he added. In a first, rare white leopard cub spotted in Maharashtra`s Ratnagiri forest In what is believed to …





