Leopard attacks family in Vellore district, forest officers capture and tranquillise it

All three members of the family suffered injuries and have been hospitalised, police said

Three members of a family, including two women, were attacked by a leopard that entered their house in Kalarpalayam in Gudiyatham in Vellore district, during the late hours of Wednesday. All three sustained injuries and have been hospitalised. On Thursday morning, Forest Department officers managed to tranquillise the big cat, trapped inside the house. It was taken to a forest on the Tamil Nadu -Andhra Pradesh border to be released. According to sources, Prema,40, and her children Manohar, 20, and Mahalakshmi, 14, were sleeping inside the house, in Kalarpalayam, Erthangal village, in Gudiyatham taluk. They had left the main door open for ventilation. It is suspected that around midnight, the leopard entered the house and attacked the family. In panic, the three ran out of the house and closed the main door and the animal was trapped inside.