leopard attack

As per the data, from April 2016 to May 2018, the conflict(s) were reported in all 10 districts in the Kashmir Valley. Shopian district reported the most incidents, 39% of sightings, with Kupwara and Anantnag following at 32% and 24%, respectively.

With no end to Man-Animal conflict incidents in Kashmir, fear is smearing among the local population in the Nichama area of Handwara in frontier district Kupwara, after a leopard attack on Monday claimed another life, the second in a span of two months.

At least, 248 people have been killed, and 2,983 injured, by wild animals since 2006 in Kashmir. In the Year 2022/23 at least 13 people were killed and more than 118 injured.