Kanpur: A two-year-old female leopard died after falling into a well in Kalinjar police station area of Banda after straying into Uttar Pradesh from forests around Chitrakoot and Panna Tiger Reserve, Forest Department officials said.
Forest ranger Sunil Singh said the dead leopard was a two-year-old female. It had crossed the Madhya Pradesh border before reaching Kalinjar, according to the department. Villagers alerted officials after finding the leopard in the well behind a hill. A team comprising Forest Department SDO Anubhav Singh and forest rangers Sunil Singh and Ramesh Shukla reached the site and pulled the animal out from the well during a rescue operation.
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