Trapped leopards beaten to death in India

Two rare leopards have been battered to death and a bounty has been placed on the head of a third, highlighting the growing conflict between humans and endangered wildlife in India.



Residents of the city of Nashik, in the western state of Maharashtra, clubbed one leopard to death with sticks and iron bars after it strayed into a residential area and injured four people on Wednesday.

Local television showed footage of the terrified animal running across a city park and clambering over a boundary wall as dozens of people chased it for more than seven hours. It also showed the leopard mauling forestry officials as they tried to capture it in a net.

A second leopard was beaten to death in the mountainous region of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday after it injured two people in the Pulwama district, about 50 miles (80km) south of Srinagar, the capital.

There's a video here.