LEOPARD ATTACKS FIRST GRADER ON SCHOOL ZOO TRIP!

A school field trip to the zoo turned into a horror show Friday in Kansas when a leopard mauled a first-grader who climbed over a railing near the big cat's cage.

The child was rushed to the hospital and is in fair condition after the four-year-old Amur leopard slashed the boy's head and neck.

Witnesses say the boy scaled the 5-foot railing and approached the animal's cage when the beast stuck its paw through the fence and pounced.

If not for the quick thinking of two bystanders, the child may have been killed.

A man and woman nearby hopped over the railing and the man kicked the leopard's head, ending the attack. The boy's head was wrapped in shirts to stop the bleeding.

"He wanted to get a closer look," Naomi Robinson, who saw the incident, told the Wichita Eagle.

"I never heard so much screaming before in my life," Robinson added.



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