Leopard Strays Into School, Attacks Student Inside Classroom [Video]

A leopard strayed into a school in India and attacked a student in an empty classroom.

The incident took place Wednesday in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh at the Chaudhary Nihal Singh Inter College in Aligarh. The student was attacked and left bleeding when he entered the classroom without realizing the animal was in it. The leopard was locked inside the classroom following the attack.

The sighting caused a huge commotion outside the campus as the staff awaited forest officers to arrive and remove the animal, NDTV reported.

The leopard was caught on camera, loitering inside the empty classroom, and the video has since gone viral on social media. The 35-second-long clip shows the predator prowling around the classroom. The video also shows the victim displaying scratch and bite marks on his arms and back.

"As I entered the classroom, I saw there was a leopard. The moment I turned away, the animal attacked and bit me on the arm and back," Lucky Singh, the student who was attacked by the animal, told NDTV. Singh suffered minor injuries in the attack and is currently being treated at a hospital.

"A leopard entered the campus as students were coming in this morning. A student was attacked by an animal. The injured child was rushed to a government hospital and provided treatment. He is now at home and is fine," Yogesh Yadav, the principal of Chaudhary Nihal Singh Inter College, told NDTV.

"The leopard is in college in room number 10. The forest authorities have been informed. The local police station has been told as well. We have been monitoring the animal through CCTV," Yadav said.

Another video, which was obtained by Times Now News, shows the animal retreating in a corner as the staff locked it inside the empty classroom. According to the outlet, as soon as the news of the leopard sighting spread, there was a stampede-like situation as people ran in different directions.

In a similar situation, a leopard had entered a girl's hostel in India in December 2020, creating a panicked situation. The animal was later found trapped under a couch. Mousumi Bora, the owner of the girl's hostel in Guwahati, a city in the northeastern state of Assam, mistook the animal for a piece of cloth stuck under the couch and tried to pick it up, before realizing it was actually a leopard. Forest officials managed to tranquilize the leopard after an hour-long effort.