India, Dec. 7 -- A cheetah cub born in India was killed after being hit by a speeding vehicle on the Agra-Mumbai National Highway at the Ghatigaon-Simariya intersection in Madhya Pradesh's Shivpuri on Sunday morning.

The deceased cheetah was one of two cubs - offspring of Namibian cheetah Gamini - that had escaped from the Kuno National Park on Saturday, officials said.

After escaping, the young cubs were roaming in the Ghatigaon area and had killed a cow in Simariya on Saturday evening. The forest department team had been tracking them since then.

On Sunday morning, one of the cubs, identified as KG-3, was hit by an unidentified vehicle.

"The impact was so severe that the cheetah was thrown to the roadside and died instantly. Locals ...