Jakarta (AFP) — A leopard was captured on Monday after it wandered into a hotel complex in one of Indonesia’s most popular holiday destinations, sparking panic among guests.

The big cat was spotted on Monday morning outside a guest room on the second floor of a hotel in Bandung, the capital of West Java, Indonesia’s most populous province.

The hotel management alerted firefighters, who then contacted the local conservation agency about the sighting.

“We used a tranquiliser, and at around 10 am (0300 GMT) the leopard was taken out of the hotel,” Agus Arianto, head of West Java’s conservation agency, told AFP.

In late August, a leopard was reported to have escaped from a zoo located just five kilometres (three miles) from the hotel.

Agus said it would take time to determine whether the

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