8-year-old girl mauled to death by leopard in UP

An eight-year-old girl was mauled to death by a leopard while she was in the fields with her father in the Sujauli area of Katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary, a forest department official said on Saturday.

Divisional Forest Officer B. Shiv Shankar said



Ayesha, a resident of Ayodhyapurwa village under Sujauli police station, was killed by the leopard on Friday afternoon.

Upon hearing her screams, villagers raised an alarm and the leopard ran away. But by that time the girl had died, the officer said.