BIJNOR: A 36-year-old woman, Meera Devi, was killed in a leopard attack at Issepur village near Najibabad town here Sunday. This is the fourth fatal attack suspectedly by the same animal in the past 12 days, and the 36th in the last two-and-a-half years in the district.Angry villagers took the body to the office of Najibabad divisional forest officer (DFO) and held a protest, demanding immediate capture of the felines. Police swiftly arrived and pacified the crowd.Meera Devi was collecting fodder in her field when the leopard emerged from a nearby sugarcane field and pounced on her. Her husband and children, who were working nearby, rushed to her rescue, but by the time they arrived, Meera succumbed to her injuries, and the leopard disappeared. Sub-divisional forest officer Gyan Singh confirmed the incident, stating, “We have found pugmarks of the leopard. We are trying to track it down. This is the fourth such incident within a radius of 3km.”