Bantwal: The CCTV camera footage of a leopard roaming in the front yard of a house in Kempugudde in the taluk has triggered panic among the locals.

The camera has captured a video of the wild cat visiting the front yard of a local named Abraham Varghese.

The panicked locals have complained to the officials of the Forest Department, urging them to capture the leopard.

The pet dogs in the nearby houses went missing a few days ago, and there is a suspicion of the canines being killed by the leopard.

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Sabarkantha (Gujarat) (PTI): Six women were killed and eight other persons injured after a private bus crashed into a van on a highway in Gujarat's Sabarkantha district on Wednesday, police said.

The van was ferrying women from Modasa in Aravalli district when a speeding bus hit it from behind on National Highway 48 connecting Shamlaji to Himmatnagar in the district, Deputy Superintendent of Police A K Patel said.

According to police, the women were part of a catering team for social events. They were travelling from Modasa in the neighbouring Aravalli district to Hunj village in Himmatnagar to attend a function when they met with the accident.

Six women passengers of the van were killed, Patel said.

Seven other women and the van driver suffered injuries, according to police.

The injured persons were rushed to the Himmatnagar civil hospital. The condition of two of them was critical, the hospital's medical officer, Dr Dhrupad Chauhan, said.

The bodies were sent to a government hospital for a postmortem.