India, Sept. 26 -- A six-year-old boy, Siddharth Pravin Kedari, was killed in a leopard attack at Thakarwadi area in Kumshet village in Junnar tehsil of Pune district on Wednesday.

This is the second confirmed human death due to a leopard attack under the jurisdiction of the Junnar forest department this year, since April. Earlier, Laxmibai Bhoite, an 82-year-old woman, died in a leopard attack in Shirur tehsil on April 25.

According to forest officials, Kedari was studying in the verandah of his house when a leopard entered around 7 pm and dragged him away. When his parents checked on him, the boy was missing. They then searched nearby houses, but couldn't find him anywhere. After searching further, they found a pen lying on the ground...