VIDEO: Elderly woman fights off leopard attack

A 60-year-old woman managed to fight off a leopard attack in the Mumbai city of India.

The elderly woman, identified as Nirmaladevi Rambadan Singh was sitting at the doorstep of her home in the Goregaon suburb of Mumbai city area. The woman has been hospitalised with minor injuries when the animal attacked her from behind.

The leopard jumped on her but she managed to successfully fend off the animal attack by using her. She is then seen being tended by her family members.

A CCTV camera footage, shared by a foreign news agency on Twitter, captured the entire incident and the video went viral on social media platforms.

“A woman barely survived an attack by a leopard in Goregaon area yesterday,” the caption read. “The woman has been hospitalised with minor injuries.”

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#WATCH | Mumbai: A woman barely survived an attack by a leopard in Goregaon area yesterday. The woman has been hospitalised with minor injuries.

(Visuals from CCTV footage of the incident) pic.twitter.com/c1Yx1xQNV8

— ANI (@ANI) September 30, 2021

She has received praise from social media users for her bravery.

When it’s instinct to survive it’s really great to see 70yr old turn 30 again. Amazing human tendencies

— Ninja Chacha (@HeroNinjaChachu) September 30, 2021

Really handsup to u

— sahithi kondepudi (@sahithikondepu1) September 30, 2021

Despite the terror, she acted quickly to defend herself👏👏

— Sunil Sihag (@sunilssihag) September 30, 2021

Thank God leopard escaped 🙏🏼
Dadi was about to end his whole career with a stick

— Arqum (@Arqum4sure) September 30, 2021

It is not the only case of a leopard attack that has taken place recently.

Watch: Cat confronts leopard while trapped inside well

In June, a four-year-old girl named Ada Yasir Mir was mauled to death by a wild leopard that attacked her brother’s birthday party in northern India.

A minor boy was saved by the locals when a leopard dragged him away from near his house in Goregaon.