Bahraich (Uttar Pradesh): An eight-year-old girl was killed after being attacked by a leopard in Bahraich’s Dhobiyanpur village here.
The leopard attacked her near the Katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary on Monday night when the girl was outside her house.
According to Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) GP Singh, “The leopard had caught the girl and was trying to drag her into the forest area. The villagers heard her screams and started shouting, compelling the leopard to leave the girl and escape in the forest.”
The girl was badly mauled and she died on the spot. Her body was later sent for post-mortem.
The DFO said that villagers are being asked not to venture out in the evenings alone.
It may be recalled that on June 4, a leopard had killed a three-year-old child in the Dallapurwa village and on the same day it injured seven people, including a forest personnel and two policemen in Patha Gaudi.
However, the forest department had later caught that leopard.