A 15-year-old boy was killed after a leopard attacked him in Maharashtra’s Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district, police said on Wednesday. The incident took place on Tuesday night in Bhambarwadi village under Kannad police station limits, they said. \

The boy resided at an ashram in the village and went out to drop someone nearby. A leopard attacked him and dragged him for about 150 feet, a police official said. A search was launched for the boy on Wednesday morning and the body was later found, he said. Forest personnel examined the deceased and confirmed it was a leopard attack, the official said.