Bardiya, Aug. 2 -- The terror of leopards continues to haunt residents of Gulariya, the district headquarters of Bardiya. A series of attacks on livestock in Gulariya has alarmed the local people.

On Friday night, a leopard broke into the shed of Mohammad Hanif Ansari in ward 8 of Gulariya Municipality and killed two goats. According to his wife Sahida Bano Ansari, one of the goats was worth around Rs 25,000.

"We can't afford to fence our shed with wire mesh. It is becoming harder to protect even our young children," she complained. This incident follows similar attacks in recent weeks.

On July 10, three goats belonging to Awadhram Lodh were killed and around two weeks before that incident three more goats of Him Bahadur Pun of Surajpu...