Coimbatore Jan 25 PTI Efforts are on for the second day to capture a leopard that had attacked two farmers in Pappankulam area in neighbouring Tirupur district In the process of trying to tranquilise it or put it in a cage a forest department official sustained injuries as the wild animal suddenly attacked the person during the operation police said on Tuesday According to them 60-year-old Varadarajan went to his farm in the early hours on Monday when the big cat pounced on him and mauled his shoulder Soon after another farmer Maran who went to the fields to answer natures call was also attacked by the same animal causing injuries to his face they said Both the men have been hospitalised After the attack on the two farmers the department on Monday deployed nearly 50 personnel including anti-poaching squads and placed three cages with 15 cameras across the sprawling maize farm A medical team sitting in a crane is moving around the area with darts to tranquilise the animal for nearly two hours but to no avail till now they said The department suspects that the leopard might be hiding in a deep bushy area or migrated to any other place in the dense forest areas in Bhavani Sagar or Sathyamangalam police said The department and police issued strict warning to the residents not to come out of the house and also not to send children to play outside they added PTI NVM HDA HDA

Coimbatore Jan 24 PTI Two farmers near Tirupur district 55 km from here landed in hospital after an attack by a leopard on Monday police said According to them 60-year-old Varadarajan went to his farm early today when the animal pounced on him and mauled his shoulder Soon after this another farmer Maran who went to the fields to answer natures call was also attacked by the same animal causing injuries to his face they said On information Forest Department personnel went to the spot where the attack took place and said the leopard may have come from Sathyamangalam forest about 30 km away the police added PTI NVM NVG NVG