A rescue attempt descended into chaos after an injured leopard attacked a villager. <br /><br />People from a village in Bageshwar, Uttarkhand, spotted an injured leopard lying on the bank of a local river on October 3.<br /><br />They informed the local forest staff, who arrived and requested the help of villagers to rescue the injured leopard. <br /><br />A group of men tried to tie up the leopard using ropes. <br /><br />As a few men tried to restrain the leopard using thick sticks.<br /><br />Villager Jagdish Singh, 50, tried to tie it up. <br /><br />But the leopard managed to free itself and grabbed his hand. Singh lost his balance, fell down close to the leopard and the agitated animal attacked him ferociously. <br /><br />Other villagers managed to pull away Singh and shifted him to a hospital where he is undergoing treatment. <br /><br />“I went to help the men rescue leopard. But it bit my hands and legs,” said Singh.<br /><br />One villager said the rescue attempt was amateurish. “The officials should have tranquilised the animal instead of asking us to tie it up,” he said. <br /><br />After the attack, the officials managed to tie up the leopard and take it away.
