Terrifying Video: Man kills leopard with bare hands in Uttarakhand's Tehri

In a dramatic encounter captured on video, a 56-year-old man, Lakshman Singh Negi, was attacked by a leopard in Uttarakhand's Jakhi village, Kirtinagar block, Devprayag assembly constituency. The video, which has gone viral, shows Negi severely injured with the leopard lying dead on the ground. According to a tweet by @AjitSinghRathi, Negi managed to fend off the already injured leopard by attacking it around its throat. The leopard, which had a wire stuck in its neck and a badly injured leg, died shortly after the confrontation. Kirtinagar Range Ranger Buddhi Prakash confirmed that the leopard had old wounds from an iron net, which likely contributed to its aggressive behavior.

The incident occurred while Negi was walking from his house in Jakhi to Khumkhu when the leopard, hiding in bushes along the old Jakhi road, launched its attack. Villagers promptly alerted the forest department and local MLA Vinod Kandhari. Upon arrival, the forest department found the leopard dead and conducted a postmortem to determine the exact cause of death, suspecting previous injuries from being trapped. "The leopard had old wounds on its neck from an iron net, which may have driven it to attack a human," confirmed Ranger Buddhi Prakash. The department is also preparing to provide compensation for Negi's injuries. This incident follows another recent leopard attack on a 17-year-old boy named Anurag in the same district.

टिहरी के लक्ष्मण सिंह ने गुलदार को मार डाला। गुलदार ने हमला किया तो लक्ष्मण ने उसके हलक में हाथ डाल दिया।
पहले से ही ज़ख़्मी गुलदार नीचे गिर पड़ा, उसका पैर पहले से ही बुरी तरह ज़ख़्मी था, गर्दन में तार फँसा था, गिरने के थोड़ी देर बाद ही गुलदार मर गया।
लक्ष्मण भी बुरी तरह… pic.twitter.com/i11j2wvPCI

— Ajit Singh Rathi (@AjitSinghRathi) July 20, 2024