Leopard enters housing society in Thane district; 3 injured

Thane: At least three people were injured after a leopard strayed into a residential area in Mira-Bhayander locality in the suburbs of Mumbai.

Teams of Maharashtra Forest Department, Mira-Bhayander Municipal Corporation and Mira-Bhayander Vasai-Virar police are at the spot and efforts are underway to trap the leopard.

The leopard is likely to have come either from the Sanjay Gandhi National Park or the Tungareshwar Wildlife Sanctuary.

The injured have been rushed to local hospitals.

The leopard is now trapped inside a room at the Paraijat Cooperative Housing Society off the Talav area of Bhayander in Thane district.