Claim: Viral video of leopard entering a house and fighting a pet dog is being placed in a house on Margalla road, Islamabad.
Fact: The video is actually from Gujrat, India and was posted 5 days earlier on Times of India.
A video of a leopard entering a house and getting into a fight with a pet dog is going viral on social media and especially in Whatsapp groups. It is being speculated that the incident took place in a house on Margalla Road in Islamabad considering a leopard was recently spotted on a camera trap near the hiking trails.
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However, the Deputy Commissioner of Islamabad has confirmed that the video is not from Islamabad.
Meanwhile, a quick Google search revealed that this incident took place in India. According to a report in the Times of India, the incident took place in Rajkot, Gujrat. The leopard was attempting to prey on the dog but when a vehicle passed by outside, it got scared and ran away. The owner of the house said that this is the first time he witnessed such an incident and that he alerted the forest department about it.
“We have set up a cage with a live bait inside it to trap the leopard,” said an official from the forest department.
The leopard population in Gujarat has witnessed a growth in recent years and it appears that the lockdown which is currently in place in the country is allowing these big cats to move around more easily.
VERDICT: FALSE [OUT OF CONTEXT]
