LUCKNOW, April 28 -- An elderly man sustained injuries after a leopard attacked him in a bid to escape from a field where it had entered in search of prey, in a Sitapur village on Sunday morning.

The injured man identified as Rambaksh, 65, of Kodari village of Reusa block in Sitapur, was working in a field along with other villagers when they spotted the leopard. The villagers tried to chase it away, but in a bid to escape it attacked Rambaksh.

As per reports, the villagers even made videos of the big cat on their mobile phones.

"We got the information about a wild animal being spotted in the field. When we reached there, the villagers had surrounded the animal and were shouting at it. We stopped them from doing so but the villagers we...