A leopard created panic for about seven hours in the Chukkapur village of the Medak district today by attacking people.
Eight persons were injured in the attack before the leopard was finally trapped by the villagers and the officials of the forest department.
Reports said that the leopard had entered the village in the morning and started attacking people. The villagers and the forest department officials tried to trap it, but the net they were using was of inferior quality, the leopard escaped from it in their first attempt.
In the second attempt made by them, the leopard was trapped at around 2 pm, providing relief to the villagers.
The people who were injured in the attack by the animal were shifted to Fever Hospital in Hyderabad. The condition of two of them was stated to be critical.