A seven-year-old girl was mauled to death by a leopard in Uttarakhand's Nainital district, a forest official said today.
The incident happened last evening in Beluakhan village, around 18 km from here, when the victim, Jaya, was playing outside her house, he said.
The girl's mutilated body was found around 1 km away near a pit.
Divisonal Forest Officer (DFO) Dharam Singh Meena visited the bereaved family members and gave them Rs 50,000 as compensation, the official said.
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