Indian leopard that mauled six at Bangalore school escapes from its enclosure

The park director Santosh Kumar said the male leopard that mauled six people at a school in India before it was captured has escaped its enclosure but the animal is still in the park so their is no need to panic, he told the public.

The leopard escaped when attendants opened the cage to feed it, possibly when the cage door was not properly shut, Officials said. The escape came one week after the leopard broke into the school in the Kundalahalli area.


A scientist and a forestry employee were among those mauled as it was cornered close to a swimming pool.

A Wildlife official said that the leopard possibly strayed into the school from a patch of forest not far from the school. Several leopards were later spotted in the city, causing 142 schools to shut down as a precaution.


A recent wildlife census showed that India has an estimated leopard population of between 12,000 and 14,000.

Leopards and other big cats have been known to stray into populated areas, and conservationists have warned that such confrontations may increase as humans encroach on animal habitats.