Hyderabad: A wild sloth bear that panicked residents after it entered a locality in Karimnagar was trapped by forest officials on Saturday.
Operations for trapping the bears were set in place after it was captured moving around in the residential areas.
On Saturday morning, the bear entered the Rekurthi area after moving around the Sripuram locality late on Friday night.
Residents of the Sripura colony captured the bear crossing a street in daylight on their mobile phones while its movement was also recorded on the CCTV mounted in the area.
Panic gripped people after watching the wild animal in their locality, following which they alerted forest officials.
A team of forest officials rushed to the spot and started a search operation to trap the bear. A net around the bushes has been arranged to catch the animal.
After six hours of rescue operation, the KNR forest and Warangal zoo rescue teams reportedly tranquilised and trapped the wild animal.
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