Farmworker lucky to be alive after attack by leopard

Elton Grobbelaar was recovering in the Greenacres Hospital yesterday after being attacked by a leopard on a Hankey farm at the weekend. Picture: GARETH WILSON



Elton Grobbelaar was hunting caracal on a farm in South Africa when he was attacked by a leopard. The leopard bit him in the face untl it was shot by a fellow hunter. Grobbelaar's left eye was damaged from the attack.

Leopards are a protected species in South Africa. A local leopard advocacy group believes the men were hunting the leopard and that it attacked when it was cornered. The group knows of 3 leopards that have been killed on the farm in the last 2 months.

A conservation department official suggests that an investigation is underway

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