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New Delhi: The 19-month-old male cheetah that was brought to Kuno National Park for treatment after it was spotted injured in the Morena forest area in Madhya Pradesh on October 25 has died, local sources told The Wire. Sources who did not want to be named told The Wire that pellets were found in the abdomen of the cheetah, as a report by the Times of India also mentioned.

On the night of October 27, Madhya Pradesh Chief Wildlife Warden Samita Rajora confirmed in a statement to the press that the 19-month-old male had died early that morning and that veterinarians retrieved five firearm pellets from its body.

The Wire had reached out to the Kuno Field Director and the state’s Chief Wildlife Warden Samita Rajora for additional details and this article will be updated when responses are received.

Park authorities in a statement on the night of October 26 had said that they had found the cheetah (a 19-month-old male, one of South African cheetah Nirva’s cubs) in the Morena territorial forest division, well outside the limits of Kuno National........

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