NEWSLINK: Leopard enters school, kills a dog; terrified students hide in their classroom

The city of Pilibhit in Uttar Pradesh is infamous for its constant human-wildlife conflicts. Just recently, students of a school in the small village of Keeratpur were terrified when they had a face to face encounter with a wild leopard. While none of the students were harmed, the leopard did kill a dog in the area.

The students of the government school in Keeratpur first encountered the leopard when it entered into the school ground through an adjacent field. The leopard then killed a dog and dragged its carcass back to the nearby Barahi forest. The Barahi forest is part of the Pilibhit Tiger Reserve, which is infamous for its poor borders.

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