India, Oct. 13 -- A five-year-old girl, Shivanya Bombe, died in a leopard attack Sunday morning in the Pimparkhed village of Shirur tehsil, one of the hotspots for the human-leopard conflict in Pune district. This is the third such death in the Junnar forest division since April this year, not to mention the seventh such death due to leopard attacks in Pimparkhed and the nearby Jambut village over the past couple of years.

The incident occurred at around 10 am on October 12. Ganesh Bombe, Shivanya's uncle, recalled, "My niece was carrying water and a cap for her grandfather, Arun Bombe, who was working in the field just 200 metres behind our house. A leopard hiding in a nearby sugarcane field suddenly leaped out and attacked her. The wil...