ABBOTTABAD, April 14: A leopard was shot down on Wednesday in a thickly populated at Banda Jalal Khan area of the city by a villager, Irshad, who had been attacked by the beast. According to the wildlife officer, Khursheed Abbasi, the female leopard was one and half years old and had come to the city area from its forest abode five kilometres away. These leopards are normally found in the forests of pine trees.

The wildlife department staff rushed to the place after receiving the information from Rescue-15, but before they reached there the leopard had been killed.

The wildlife department’s team shifted the carcass to Peshawar for decomposition and its skin would be put on display at the Pakistan Forest College Peshawar or at the Wildlife Museum.

This was the third incident of its kind in the city in the last three years.