In a terrifying viral video, a leopard attacked was seen attacking a 56-year old man in Uttrakhand's Jakhi village of Kirtinagar block, Devprayag assembly constituency. In the video the man can be seen severely injured and the leopard was seen dead on a floor.
According to tweet posted by @AjitSinghRathi, the man in the video Lakshman Singh Negi attacked the already injured leopard around its throat. The tweet also mentioned that, the leg of the leopard was badly injured, the wire was stuck in its neck, the
leopard died shortly after falling. In the video the Lakshman Singh Negi's hand can been seen brutally injured.
According to media report in hindi news portal Hindustanlive, Laxman Singh Negi was walking from his house in Jakhi to Khumkhu when the leopard, hiding in bushes 50 meters below the old Jakhi road, launched the attack on him. Villagers quickly alerted the forest department and Devprayag MLA Vinod Kandhari. The forest department team, upon arriving at the scene, discovered the dead leopard nearby.