A woman was seriously injured when a leopard attacked her near Katarnia Ghat Wildlife Sanctuary in Uttar Pradesh's Bahraich district, officials said on Sunday.

According to villagers, Madhuri (20), a resident of Sirsianpurva village in the Sadar Beat area of the Katarnia Ghat Forest Range, was sleeping on a cot outside her house when at around 1:30 am, a leopard came out from the forest and attacked her. The leopard grabbed her and started dragging her towards the forest, they said.