As many as eight persons, including a policeman and a forest guard, were injured in an attack of a same leopard in Gorakhchauraha and Teshanpur of Bardiya district on Sunday.

The injured are receiving treatment at the district hospital in Gulariya. 

The leopard attacked the people who were harvesting mustard at Teshanpur in ward 9 of Badhaiyatal Rural Municipality. 

The leopard later entered a house at Gorakhchauraha in ward 11 of Gulariya Municipality after the locals chased away the big cat.