DAMAULI: A girl child lost her life to leopard attack in Tanahun on Thursday evening.

The deceased has been identified as four-year-old Ranjeeta Lamsal of Bhanu Municipality-4, Chisapani, confirmed the District Police Office, Tanahun.

The big cat had attacked Lamsal at around 5.00 in the evening while she was playing at the threshold of her house. The injured minor was pronounced dead at Damauli Hospital.

Krishna Lamsal, father of the deceased child is outside the country in course of foreign employment. She has been living with her mother Saraswoti Lamsal and two brothers.