PNS | Vijayawada
A six-year-old girl, who went missing around 11.30 pm on Friday while she was on the way to Tirumala through stepway with her parents, was found dead on Saturday morning. The police found severe wounds on the body of the girl, that of an animal.
Her body was found on Saturday morning in a bushy area near another temple on the pedestrian path that leads to the hill shrine in Tirupati. Lakshita is suspected to have wandered off into the forest while trekking up the hill with her parents. The family was from Nellore.
Injuries on her body indicated an animal attack. However, it is not clear if it was a leopard or sloth bear. The area is frequented by sloth bears and several such incidents were caught on CCTV in the past.
In June, a three-year-old boy came under leopard attack in the area, but was rescued in the nick of time. Using about 150 cameras to track it, the animal was trapped and later released into another forest.
