A wild leopard went on a daylong rampage, injuring 13 people before it was shot dead near an oil company compound in an Indian village.
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The fully-grown male leopard managed to get inside the Oil India Limited field headquarters campus at Duliajan in the Dibrugarh district, where he attacked several staff members.
The shocking photos show the animal attacking a security guard after he tried to rescue his colleague.
P Shiv Kumar, divisional forest officer of Digboi forest division, said:
“We were informed about a leopard straying into a bungalow of an Oil executive on Sunday morning.
I accompanied a team of veterinary doctors from the Centre for Rehabilitation and Conservation of the Wildlife Trust of India to the spot.
By the time we got there, the leopard had attacked five people. We tried to tranquillize the leopard, but it got agitated – which is normal before sedatives takes effect – and pounced on the large crowd gathered at the spot. The security personnel were left with no option but to shoot it.”
A forest official said leopards were often spotted on the oil campus because of its proximity to the Joypore reserve forest.
Last year, a cheetah attacked staff members at an India zoo and made news worldwide.
