MP: Leopard kills six-year-old girl in Mhow
Mhow, MP: A six-year-old girl was attacked and killed by a leopard at a village in Madhya Pradesh's Mhow tehsil in the early hours of Thursday, a forest official said.
The incident took place around 2 am, when the child, Ravina Wasnik, was sleeping with her parents outside their house on the outskirts of Dudhi Bawdi village, Choral forest range officer Rahul Jain said.
The leopard attacke d and killed her on the spot. The predator fled the place after her parents raised an alarm, he said.
I reached Dudhi Bawdi village early this morning to take stock of the situation. The child's body was taken to Simrol primary health centre for post-mortem, Jain said, adding that the process of providing compensation to the affected family has been initiated.
