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A woman bravely fought off a leopard to save her 11-year-old daughter at Valparai in the district, police said on Saturday. Thirty-year-old Muthulakshmi, along with her daughter Sathya, were picking firewood in the backyard of their house last night, when the feline pounced on the girl and began dragging it away by her neck, they said.