Special team to probe killing of leopard in Hatton

 

The Ministry of Wildlife says that a team headed by an Additional Secretary is on its way to Hatton to investigate into the killing of a leopard. 

A leopard which had been caught in a trap attached to a tree on Saturday night (06) had died from injuries despite the efforts by wildlife officers to chop down the tree and rescue the animal. 

It is reported that leopard had climbed a nearby eucalyptus tree in an attempt to get out of the trap and that when the wildlife officers arrived and cut down the tree to rescue the leopard it was dead. 

Meanwhile wildlife officers have been accused of failing to rescue the animal despite being able to save it without harming the leopard and that the animal died due to them cutting down the said tree.