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| Leopard devours 6-yr-old Sanjana |
| Leopard devours 6-yr-old Sanjana Thorat at Mumbai's National Park
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| INDIA
, 18-July-2012
1:2:21 AM |
| In another instance of human-animal conflict, a six-year-old girl living with her parents in the Shankar Tekdi area of Mulund (West) was killed and partially devoured by a leopard late on Sunday night.
Sanjana Thorat lived in the slums encroaching on the fringes of the Sanjay Gandhi National Park with her father, mother, an elder brother and a sister.
Around 10.30 pm, Sanjana and her mother Sunita Thorat, 28, ventured 20-feet away from their hutment to answer nature's call, when the leopard emerged from the bushes and dragged the girl off.
Fifteen minutes after the attack, locals informed the police, but claim that the officials arrived an hour later and refused to enter the forest stating that it was unsafe.
Around 200 slum-dwellers had gathered and they launched an all-night search for Sanjana and called it off at around 5 am.
Officials of the forest department arrived around 7 am and the search operation resumed along with police officials.
Finally, a group of youngsters accompanied by a dog found Sanjana's head around 300 to 400 metres inside the forest.
"Sanjana wanted to go out to answer nature's call. We were about 20-feet away from our house when a full-grown leopard appeared and dragged her away into the thick bushes," said Sunita
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