A six-year-old girl was mauled to death by a leopard in
Uttarakhand's Tehri district in the third such incident in the hill
state within a month.
The girl, a resident of Rauniya village of the district, was
returning home last evening from a nearby shop when the leopard hiding
behind the bushes assaulted her and took her into the jungles, SDM
Pratapnagar Devanand Sharma said.
Villagers who saw the leopard assaulting the girl raised an alarm,
but it ran undeterred into the wild along with the child whose
half-eaten body was recovered later, Sharma said.
Incidents of human beings falling prey to the big cats have been on the
rise in Uttarakhand of late with this one being the third such incident
in a month.
On October 22, 38-year old Sheela Bisht had gone to the fields to
cut grass at Silkhaura village of the state's Almora district when a
leopard pounced on her, killing her on the spot.
A 56-year-old woman was mauled to death by a leopard at Malli Chauneli village of Almora on October 16.
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