Drowning leopard clung on to a power cable to stay afloat inside a village well in Maharashtra.
On Thursday morning, farmers at a village in Maharashtra's Akola district heard growling sounds from a well in a nearby farm.
As they peeped inside the well, they saw a leopard clinging on to what resembled a power cable, trying to stay afloat.
The villagers immediately informed the forest officials, who came to the spot and lowered down a charpoy or cot inside the well with the help of ropes.
The wild cat latched onto the
charpoy and was lifted up to safety within half an hour; it quickly managed to escape to the nearby forest.