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Minor girl found dead in Udaipur; leopard attack suspected: Police

Sep 19, 2024 04:42 PM IST

The deceased girl had gone to graze goats on Wednesday afternoon but she didn’t return home till late night and family members found her body the next morning

A 16-year-old girl was found dead in Rajasthan’s Udaipur city on Thursday with locals and family members calling it a leopard attack, police said.

The body has been shifted to a hospital where the postmortem will be conducted to ascertain if it was a leopard attack or not. (Representative file photo)
The body has been shifted to a hospital where the postmortem will be conducted to ascertain if it was a leopard attack or not. (Representative file photo)

According to the station house officer (SHO) Gogunda Shaitan Singh Nathawat, the deceased girl, a resident of Pani Ka Fala area of Undithal village, had gone to graze goats on Wednesday afternoon but she didn’t return home till late night.

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The police officer said that the girl’s family continued to look for their daughter throughout the night. After hours of searching, they found her body in a nearby forest on Thursday morning.

The body has been shifted to a hospital where the postmortem will be conducted.

Deputy conservator of forest (DCF) Ajay Chittora said, “We have found the body of a minor girl with multiple wounds on her body, the villagers are claiming that it was a leopard, but we can further comment on it once the post-mortem report comes, however, as a precautionary measure, we have installed a cage in the area. We are yet to confirm if the girl died due to a leopard attack or some other reason.”

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