Bahraich, Feb. 8 -- A six-year-old girl was killed in a leopard attack today evening in a village under the Sujauli police station area of the Katarniaghat Wildlife Division in Uttar Pradesh's Bahraich district.
According to officials, the incident took place in Mohkam Purwa village of Chhafaria gram panchayat.
The victim, identified as Sahjal (6), daughter of Raju Gautam, was playing in the courtyard of her house when a leopard emerged from the nearby forest and attacked her. The animal grabbed the child and attempted to drag her towards a nearby sugarcane field.
Hearing the child's screams, family members and villagers rushed to the spot with sticks and chased the leopard. The animal then abandoned the severely injured girl in the fiel...