Three people were injured in a leopard attack near a forest area in Madhya Pradesh's Shahdol on October 20. They were enjoying a picnic with a group of friends when the incident took place leaving two of them with severe head injuries.
The picnickers noticed the leopard lurking in the bushes in Khitauli, a riverside village some 150km from Jabalpur, and instigated the big cat leading to the attack. As per a short clip doing the rounds on social media, the group of around 50 people started calling out the leopard, screaming 'aa jaa, aa jaa' (come here, come here).
Within seconds the laughter and fun-filled picnic turned into horror when the angry leopard pounced on a man and attacked others. The group of panic-stricken picnickers were then heard screaming 'bhaag' (run) in the video.
Three people who were injured by the leopard's claws and fangs have been identified as Nitin Samdariya, an ASI with Shahdol police, Akash Kushwaha, and Nandini Singh. All of them are residents of Shahdol town, around 100km from Khitauli.
According to Badshah Rawat, sub-divisional forest officer, Shahdol, an advisory was issued recently requesting people to not venture into the forest.
"Another incident of a tiger attack had taken place in the area recently, following which the advisory was issued. We have asked officials to alert villagers and other people not to go into the forests. A control room has also been set up to help people in such incidents," he told NDTV.
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