Early Thursday morning, an 11-year-old boy was killed in a suspected leopard attack in Maharashtra’s Chandrapur district, a forest official said.
The incident took place around 5.30 am when the boy went out for a morning walk with his friends. He was a resident of Vandra village in Brahmapuri tehsil, located around 125 km from the district headquarters.
The deceased’s friends claimed that the leopard pounced on him while they were walking and dragged him into the nearby, said the Chichkheda jungle, Chief Conservator of Forests, Chandrapur Circle, N R Pravin. When his friends and some passersby raised an alarm, the leopard left the boy and escaped into the forest, he further said.
The boy had died on the spot and an investigation was underway into the incident.