Lady Cop
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RE: death by wildlife
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A man-eating leopard has claimed its fifth victim in just two months after dragging away and devouring a 14-year-old girl in Nepal.
So far, all the animal's victims have been female.
In the latest attack, the unnamed teenager was cutting grass in the forest near her home in Baitadi district, on the border with India, when she was attacked by the animal, said Bishnu Bahadur Karki, a local deputy superintendent of police.
"The locals found the body torn into pieces and eaten below the neck at the forest area yesterday," he told AFP.
Karki said three young girls and a 35-year-old pregnant woman had been killed in the weeks leading up to yesterday's attack.
Police believed the same animal was responsible for all the deaths.
"The leopard has continuously been victimising and terrorising the people of Pancheshwor village. We requested the district forest office to allow us to kill it but they refused, saying that the law does not provide such permission," Karki told AFP.
"Our request to have the leopard handed over to a zoo has also been rejected. The villagers and police are trying hard to take that leopard into custody."
Villagers claim three more people have been killed by the leopard in nearby settlements on the Indian side of the border.
"We are scared to walk alone," Shiva Singh Saud, the headmistress of a local primary school was quoted as saying in the Kathmandu-based Republica newspaper.
"More people may be attacked if the leopard is not taken under control immediately."
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| 02-19-2012 04:54 PM |
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Two women were mauled to death after bears broke free from their cages in a Japanese animal park, police revealed today.
Officers said an unknown number of animals are still on the loose in the snow-covered Hachimantai bear park in Akita prefecture.
The park, in the north west of the country, keeps 38 animals, most of them brown bears.
Hunters have shot dead six of the animals, all within the gated park campus, and had recovered two bodies, thought to be those of workers at the facility, an Akita police spokesman said.
Emergency services were alerted after 10am local time to bear attacks in the park, which was closed to tourists for the winter, AFP reported today.
The police spokesman said the incident was not yet over.
'It's difficult to say exactly how many bears left their cages,' he told AFP, stressing that emergency workers were scrambling to contain the situation as darkness fell.
It took several hours before emergency workers could even go into the bear park for fears of being attacked by bears on the loose.
Police have asked local residents and school children to stay indoors.
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| 04-20-2012 10:57 AM |
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Riotgear
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RE: death by wildlife
Jesus Christ! Doesn't anyone have any powdered bone of an albino child we could use to make a potion to ward off some of these vicious beasts?
Someone needs to get on it already.
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| 04-20-2012 11:07 AM |
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