India, Oct. 25 -- Shirur tehsil is once again in shock after a leopard attack claimed the life of a 70-year-old woman from Jambut village on October 22. The incident comes less than two weeks after a five-year-old girl was killed in a similar attack just a few kilometres away, deepening the local community's fear and grief.

Forest officials said the attack occurred around 6:15 am when Bhagubai Rangnath Jadhav, a resident of Thorat Vasti in Jambut, stepped outside to relieve herself. A leopard, believed to have been hiding in a nearby sugarcane field, pounced on her and dragged her nearly 500 metres away. When she did not return, her two sons went searching and found her body in the field.

Her death has left the small farming community i...