Kashmir police offer reward for killing leopard

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Kashmir police hunt leopard that ate 3 kids

 

January 17, 2007

SRINAGAR, India -- Police in Indian-controlled Kashmir offered a reward

Tuesday to help find a killer leopard believed to have eaten three children

in the last week.

 

The children, ages 8 to 10, were mauled to death by a leopard near the

Chatergul village last week, officials said. A 10-year-old boy also was

killed there last month.

 

A $225 reward will be given to anyone with information on tracking down the

leopard, said officer Hemant Lohia.

 

Leopards are protected under the Indian Wildlife Act but wildlife officers

said man-eating animals are an exception and can be killed.

 

*AP*