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| Beasts run amok, kill dozens of domestic animals in one night | | | Jammu, July 30
Signifying as an awakening call for the wild life authorities, wild beasts let lose a rein of terror in Reasi and Rajouri districts by killing about thirty domestic animals after descending to the human habitations since Sunday night.
Series of attacks in a single night have taken away sleep of the people living in villages adjacent to forest areas
People told News Agency of Kashmir that stray leopards and bears stuck at Magarkote, Narkote and Kondra villages in Reasi district last night and preyed upon ox, dogs, sheep and other animals.
Half eaten dead carcasses of domestic animals, abandoned by the beasts around habitations, created panic among the villagers.
Similar scenes were witnessed in the Sunderbani and Bhudal areas of Nowshera where about twenty animals were torn apart by the leopards and bears.
Terrified by the frequent attacks people of these villages came on roads and demonstrated against the wild life authorities for not taking measures to confine the stray beasts in the protected areas, sources told NAK.
There has been a sharp increase in the incidents of trespassing of wild beasts into human habitations in the areas close to forest areas both in Kashmir and Jammu divisions.
Experts term increasing population and fast disappearances of green forest as the main reason behind the increased animal man clashes. The issue is being frequently raised at various forum but so far government has not taken any concrete measure to check this animal human conflict.
During this year's budget session state forest minister Qazi Muhammad Afzal had attributed lack of adequate men and machinery for the failure of wild life department in reining in the stray wild beasts.
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