manalia pair of leopards entered the log huts area of manali killing pets amd attacking residents of the area on sunday residents and hoteliers of the area had on saturday informed forest officials about having spotted two leopards gaurav thakur a resident of old manali said that it was fearful seeing the leopards walking on snow without any fear it had killed three dogs and had attacked one person injuring him the leopard too was injured with villagers pelting stones my father was attacked when he was out for morning walk he has sustained injuries on head and arm and is getting treatment in hospital people told me that he had a good fight with the leopard for nearly a minute after which leopard left him we are surprised that only one person had come for rescue it was the villagers who helped him in capturing the leopard thankfully it was sunday otherwise the area remains frequented with small school kids victims son roshan saidmy father was attacked when he was out for morning walk he has sustained injuries on head and arm and is getting treated at the local hospital with the help of villagers the leopard was finally captured said roshan son of the victim local residents pointed out since it was a sunday there were no school kids otherwise there were many who use that road at that timethe residents claimed that was difficult for even forest officials to reach the village for capturing the leopard they needed at shooting gun with a tranquilizer which had to be brought from sundarnagar said one of the villagers they claimed that the distance between these two places takes at least for to five hours and would take more time because of the incessant snowing divisional forest officer neeraj chadha said the victim taape ram 67 who had sustained injuries had been treated and was also given an amount of rs5000 as relief the leopard has been treated post injury and was sent to has been given immediate relief of rs five thousand the leopard was given first aid and was sent to palampur chadha added that one of the reasons for wildlife descending to the lower areas was because in search of foodshrinking forest cover and depleting prey are the reasons responsible for leopards entering the inhabited places pointed out chadha