{"id":707225,"date":"2026-07-23T14:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T14:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/707225\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T14:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T14:48:09","slug":"india-liquor-store-employee-narrowly-escapes-leopard-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/707225\/","title":{"rendered":"India: Liquor store employee narrowly escapes leopard attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier, the animal had already attacked a cleaning worker inside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Afterwards, the leopard hid near the counter so both employees managed to escape. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Others helped shut the shop, trapping the leopard inside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After nearly five hours, officials tranquillised and captured the animal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was later released back into the wild, local authorities confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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":707226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-707225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}