A leopard was beaten to death by people in a village in this Uttar Pradesh district after the animal attacked a Homeguard jawan, a forest department officer said on Saturday. The incident occurred on Friday evening in Amannagar village, he said.

Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) Gyan Singh said Homeguard Jawan Surendra had gone to a tubewell behind his house with his children—Disha, 20, Reshu, 14, and Deepanshu (18)—where the leopard was sitting on a mango tree.