In India, Leopard Believed To Have Eaten Three Children
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SRINAGAR, India — Police in Indian-controlled Kashmir offered a reward yesterday for any information on a killer leopard believed to have eaten three children in the last week.
Three children aged between eight and 10 were mauled to death by a leopard near Chatergul village last week, officials said. A 10-year old boy was also killed there last month.
Chatergul village is 56 miles south of Srinagar, the summer capital of India’s Jammu-Kashmir state.
A reward of $225 would be given to anyone with information on tracking down the leopard, police officer Hemant Lohia said.
Wildlife officers said an exception to laws protecting leopards had been made.
