Rajkot: A 17-year-old girl was killed by a leopard that attacked her in Kasan village of Bhavnagar’s Mahuva taluka on Thursday evening.
The girl, Arti Makwana, succumbed to the injuries at a government hospital on Friday.
Makwana was sitting alongside other women who were washing clothes near a farm owned by one Jiva Patel. The women work as farm labourers there.
Nilesh Vegda, range forest officer, Mahuva said, “The leopard had brutally bite the girl on her neck. The staff of Talaja, Mahuva and Jesar rangers have set up four cages to capture the leopard.”