Leopard visits Rishikesh nursing home

December 27, 2013 12:12 am | Updated May 31, 2016 08:36 am IST - Rishikesh:

Sending a chill down the spines of patients and doctors, a leopard strayed into a city nursing home on Thursday. Experts said the smell of bio-degradable waste, dumped in the open outside the nursing home, might have attracted the feline.

As the five-year-old leopardess walked into the physiotherapy ward which was empty, an alert nursing home staff bolted the door from outside and called the police.

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