DAMAULI, June 12: A girl was injured in a leopard attack at Bandipur Rural municipality-4 in Tanahun district on Saturday evening. The injured has been identified as eight-year-old Riyana Thapa, according to the District Police Office, Tanahun.

The injured girl is undergoing treatment at Moti Medical College, Dumre. According to the outgoing Chairman of Bandipur Rural Municipality, Purna Singh Thapa, a leopard attacked the girl leaving her seriously injured on her neck. The condition of the injured girl is said to be stable. 

The girl had come out of the house seeing her parents return home from the market when she came under a sudden attack of the leopard. The leopard ran away after her parents came to her rescue.

In the last few years, there have been frequent attacks by leopards in various municipalities of the district. 

Meanwhile, the Division One Office has urged parents and guardians to not leave their children alone outside the house, especially in the evening to avoid leopard attacks.

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