Watch: The Leopard That Killed 6-Year-Old Girl In Tirumala Captured

The leopard that killed the 6-year-old girl along the Tirumala pedestrian route on Friday has been captured by the forest department.

The girl, identified as Lakshitha, had gone missing on Friday night near the Narasimha Swamy temple. She was coming to Tirumala on the Alipiri walkway and was found dead at Lakshminarasimhaswamy temple on Saturday, the officials told ANI.

Lakshitha's father, Dinesh, said, "While climbing the footway in Tirumala, his daughter, who was a few steps ahead, went to purchase a biscuit packet. Due to the heavy crowd of devotees, we thought that she was ahead, but after some time we didn't find her. Later, she was found dead in a leopard attack near Lakshminarasimha Swamy temple."

Police reached the spot and took the body for postmortem to the Tirupathi government hospital.

As per the reports in the local media, The leopard has been captured after the forest department laid two traps. It has now been taken to a zoo.

A video of the captured leopard is now doing rounds on social media sites.

The TTD (Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams) and the forest department together announced an exgratia of Rs 10 lakh to the victim's family.