Nabarangpur: Three wild bears entered a government-run high school in Odisha’s Nabarangpur district on Monday, triggering panic among the students and locals.
The students and teachers of Sadashiv High School at Dahana under Nandahandi block of the district spotted the three wild bears roaming inside the campus and informed the authorities.
Local forest department officials rushed to the school after getting information. They were monitoring the movement of the wild bears.
One female and two cubs have entered into the old building of the high school and forest department personnel have been deployed to send the animals back into the forest in the evening, assistant conservator of forests (ACF) Dhanurjay Mohapatra said.
For the safety of the students, the school authorities have closed the school for the day.
The school is close to a forest patch, which is home to wild bears. The forest officials suspect that the bears might have come from the forest area.
