MEERUT: A leopard entered the Meerut Cantonment Hospital on Sunday,
sparking panic among patients and hospital staff. The Army has cordoned
off the densely populated area and an expert team from the Wildlife
Trust has arrived from Afzal Garh, near Bijnor, the catch the beast.
The big cat was spotted by a caretaker as it was entering the male ward, where three patients were undergoing treatment.
Timber merchant Gaurav Mehndiratta first saw the leopard around 11.30am at his warehouse toilet.
"I was just strolling in an open area when I suddenly saw the leopard
coming out of a makeshift toilet. I ran away and called the police," he
said. Soon, the police cordoned off the area and searched for the
leopard for about two hours but could not spot it.
By that time
a sizable number of people had gathered around the premises. When a
curious onlooker removed a timber plank, the beast suddenly appeared and
injured the person. The police then fired two shots in the air after
which the beast disappeared from the scene and resurfaced at the
Cantonment Hospital.
When a few photographers tried to take
pictures of the beast from a window, it leapt to attack them. Although
it could not come out of the window, it broke the panes and injured two
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The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper column-inches than any other cryptozoological subject. There are so many of them now that we feel that they should be archived by us in some way, so we should have a go at publishing a regular round-up of the stories as they come in. Curated by Carl Marshall and Olivia McCarthy
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