TANAHUN: A boy was killed in a leopard attack in Tanahun district, on Sunday evening.

According to Tanahun District Police Office, eight-year-old Pujan Sinjali Magar of Aabukhairani Rural Municipality-1 was killed when the leopard attacked him on his way back home from his maternal uncle's house near his village.

Magar was a Grade II student at Suryodaya Primary School in Aabukhaireni-2. Police said that his body was recovered some 200 metres away from home in a search conducted after the boy did not return for a long time.

So far, seven kids have lost their lives from leopard attack in Tanahun district, Chief of Division Forest Office Kedar Baral said.