Bhopal, May 12 -- Four Cheetah cubs were found dead in Madhya Pradesh's Kuno National Park (KNP) on Tuesday, a forest official said, adding that the wounds on the carcasses indicate a leopard attack.

The cubs were born in the wild to the cheetah tagged as KGP12 and were found dead in their den in the park in Sheopur. The cubs, born on April 11 and celebrated as the first wild-born cheetahs in India, were discovered dead by a forest department monitoring team.

The monitoring team found the four half-eaten carcasses in the forest. Their mother, KGP12, was safe and found roaming nearby, said an official.

KGP12 is the offspring of Gamini, a cheetah born in South Africa. Her litter marked the first time an Indian-born cheetah raised in the ...