
© EuropicsKamla Devi suffered several injuries after she fought off a leopard.
Kamla Devi, 56, says she battled with the animal for half an hour after it attacked her while she was tending her fields
A 56-year-old Indian woman is recovering in hospital after killing a leopard that attacked her, as she tended her fields armed only with a sickle.
The woman told Indian broadcaster CNN-IBN that she battled with the leopard for half an hour on Sunday morning before finally delivering a killer blow with her sickle.
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The leopard lunged at me many times and we fought for a long time," she told the channel from her hospital bed in the northern state of Uttarakhand, her arms bandaged and a big scar across her right cheek.
"I got hold of my sickle and fought with it. That's when the leopard was killed," said the woman, named as Kamla Devi.
Devi, who was widowed a few years ago,
told the Hindustan Times she was terrified when the leopard attacked, but was determined not to succumb.