-- Samir Umarye BICHOLIM MARCH 15: The forest department today laid trap to catch the leapord that attaked a 45 year old man from Nanoda Bicholim on Sunday.
The trap is laid only some meters away from the place where the incident took place. "There are several wild animals in the area and now after the attack the people are bit afraid to go even for plucking cashews as the season is coming near" Govind Phadke from from Nanoda told Herald "just last week our puppy was eaten by a leopard and we are very much afraid as they have started coming very close to the human habitation." Meanwhile, today when Herald went to the spot and tried to talk to the villagers they denied to talk on the incident. "We do not know much about the incident nither know anything about the trap or the death of a leopard. We came to know about it only when we saw it in the newspapers" a villager told when asked to comment about the incident. Pandurang Tulaskar (45) from Pistewada Nanoda Bicholim who was attacked by the leopard is still at Asilo Mapusa and is recuperating . It may be recalled that on Sunday Tulaskar was attacked when he had gone to answer nature's call behind his house. Later, the forest department had also found another carcass of a female leopard trapped in a net used to catch wild boar. Speaking to Herald in the evening ACF, Subhash Henrick had told that the investigation as to who had laid the trap was on.
