At least 15 people were injured when a wild leopard went on a rampage in the Indian state of Assam.
The animals do not usually attack human beings unless provoked, but terrifying footage shared on social media on Tuesday showed the animal leaping over a barbed wire fence - much higher than the height of any person - and launching itself at a moving van.
After a two-day search, the animal was successfully tranquillised on Thursday and will undergo a medical examination before it is released into Assam’s Kaziranga National Park, also home to the world’s largest population of the Indian one-horned rhinoceros. It is unclear why the animal attacked people without provocation - the Jorhat police described its behaviour as “erratic” - but it seems it had left the nearby Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary in search of food, officials added.