• Thursday, April 25, 2024

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Meditating Buddhist monk killed in India leopard attack

By: Sarwar Alam

A Buddhist monk has been killed by a leopard while meditating in a protected forest for the big cats, the fifth such attack in the area this month, Indian police said on Thursday (13). Rahul Walke Bodhi was seated beneath a tree in Ramdegi forest in western India for morning prayers on Tuesday when the leopard pounced. The 35-year-old monk was fatally injured, police in Maharashtra state said. Two other devotees meditating with him at the time escaped unscathed to alert police, who started a search for his body. “His badly mauled body was found further into the forest, indicating the animal…

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