Bounty for killer leopard

Vol XXIX NO. 302 Tuesday 16th January 2007

Bounty for 'killer' leopard

SRINAGAR: Authorities in Indian administered Kashmir yesterday offered a reward of 10,000 rupees (BD85.31) to anyone helping catch a leopard thought to have mauled to death three children in 10 days.

Hundreds of villagers protested after a leopard dragged an 8-year-old girl from her house in Chatragul, a forested area in south Kashmir. Her mangled body and blood-soaked clothes were found among pine trees, police said. Two other children were killed in the area earlier this month by what officials say is likely the same animal. Over a dozen people have been killed in the past 12 months by wild animals.