Haridwar, Dec. 8 -- Local authorities have deployed drones, fox lights and sharpshooters to trace and neutralise a man-eater leopard that is suspected to have killed two people at separate locations in the last two days in Pauri Garhwal district, officials aware of the matter said on Sunday. At Gajald village near Satyakhal, about 14km from Pauri town, where a 45-year-old villager was killed by a leopard on December 4, forest department sharpshooters have been deployed to shoot the man-eater leopard. Officials added that drone surveillance -- the first of its kind in the Garhwal division for tracking killer wild animals -- is also underway. "Forest personnel are being equipped with fox lights, the Animal Intrusion Detection and Repellent System (ANIDER), drones, and two sharpshooters have already been stationed at Gajald village. Drone surveillance along with regular patrolling by forest personnel is being carried out. Fodder is also being delivered to villagers at their doorsteps so that they do not have to venture out, given the risky leopard movement in and around the village. A sudden rise in leopard activity is being witnessed across the district, for which long-term safety measures and solutions are also being considered," said Pauri Garhwal district magistrate Swati S Bhadauriya. In the Cantonment area of Lansdowne, about 80km from the Pauri district headquarters, a leopard has also been spotted by local residents and commuters over the past few days near the Government Girls College, Dharamshala, Cantt School and the Army Golf Course training ground on the Kotdwar-Lansdowne road. On Saturday, at Amlesa village in Jahrikhal block of Pauri Garhwal, a 60-year-old woman, Urmila Devi, was killed by a wild animal, which some villagers claimed was a tiger. "Villagers believe it was probably a tiger that killed Urmila Devi, wife of former village chief Rajendra Singh. But whether it is a leopard or tiger, villagers must be given relief from the constant movement of wild animals, which is causing deaths of humans and livestock," said Amlesa village chief Gajendra Singh Pundir....