A bear fell into a dried-up water tank at a tea estate in southern India on August 29 prompting a desperate rescue. <br /><br />Acting quickly, a team of forest officials arrived at the estate near Doddabetta at Nilgiris district, Tamil Nadu, and rescued it by placing a ladder into the tank.<br /><br />A video shot on a mobile camera by a forest staffer sitting in a tree, shows his colleagues standing near the water tank holding burning torches as one of them lowers a ladder. <br /><br />As the bear climbs up the ladder and escapes, they all run to safety.<br /><br />An officer explained: “The bear was agitated and there was no time to call for backup. There was a risk of the bear attacking us after escaping from the tank. So we held burning torches to keep it at bay.” <br /><br />“Luckily, the rescue went off well without any incident,” he added.
