Mauled man was trying to save leopard

AN Indian labourer who had his scalp ripped off by a rampaging leopard over the weekend has spoken of his horrific ordeal, saying he was trying to save the cat when it turned on him.

Pintu Dey is recovering in hospital in India’s northeastern state of Assam after being badly mauled outside his house in an attack captured in a series of startling and gruesome photographs.

“My two children were inside the house and so I went to save them when I found some policemen aiming to shoot the leopard,” Dey, who is in his 40s, said from his hospital bed.