{"id":820032,"date":"2026-07-24T03:29:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T03:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/820032\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T03:29:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T03:29:17","slug":"india-liquor-store-employee-narrowly-escapes-leopard-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/820032\/","title":{"rendered":"India: Liquor store employee narrowly escapes leopard attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\">CCTV footage from 20 July showed the moment a leopard entered a liquor store and attacked a salesman in Rajasthan, north western India. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\">Earlier, the animal had already attacked a cleaning worker inside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\">Afterwards, the leopard hid near the counter so both employees managed to escape. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\">Others helped shut the shop, trapping the leopard inside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\">After nearly five hours, officials tranquillised and captured the animal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\">It was later released back into the wild, local authorities confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\">Reporting by Mohar Singh Meena and Purushottam Joshi of BBC News Hindi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CCTV footage from 20 July showed the moment a leopard entered a liquor store and attacked a salesman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,128,338],"class_list":["post-820032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}