Boy mauled to death, attack by leopard suspected

A 14-year-old boy was killed on Sunday in a suspected leopard attack in Dhaurahra range of rth Kheri forest division.

boy, Chandan, was a resident of Sahabdeenpurwa vill, forest officials said.According to villrs, boy h gone to fields to collect grass for his livestock when a leopard attacked and killed him.

Villrs rushed to rescue of boy, but he h died by n, while big cat fled into dense fields.Divisional Forest Officer (DFO), rth Kheri, Anil Kumar Patel confirmed to have received information of boy's death.

He said local field staff was on spot to collect pugmarks of big cat to ascertain if it was a leopard or a tiger. Patel, however, hinted that it could be leopard whose movement in this area was being reported since past one week.