Overview
- Forest officials said the young cheetah was struck between 5 and 6 am near the Simariya turn in Ghatigaon and died on the roadside.
- Authorities apprehended the suspected driver, cordoned off the site, and moved the carcass to Kuno for a post-mortem by a panel of experts.
- Both escaped cheetahs were being monitored via satellite collars, and teams received an immediate alert after the collision.
- The pair, identified by officials as offspring of cheetah Gamini, had killed a cow in the Simariya area on Saturday evening, and the search continues for the remaining cub.
- The death follows Friday’s separate loss of Veera’s 10‑month‑old cub after its release, and officials now put Kuno’s population at 27, with 30 cheetahs in Madhya Pradesh overall.