Leopard attack clip shot in India, not Bangladesh
The accompanying clip shows a man arm-wrestling a big cat while a crowd hurls stones and bricks from a distance.
The video circulated with similar claims elsewhere on Facebook after a leopard was spotted in Chittagong Hill Tracts, raising hopes among conservationists (archived link).
Leopards are listed as vulnerable as a species globally, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, but critically endangered in the South Asian country of more than 170 million people, warning its population may no longer be viable.
Previous reports of the elusive cats had been based on paw prints and fleeting sightings in the forest, according to a zoologist Monirul Khan from Jahangirnagar University.
A reverse search of keyframes on Google found the video in a report from Indian news outlet NDTV on June 25, 2025 (archived link).
"Man fights leopard bare-handed in Lakhimpur Kheri," the clip's text overlay says, referring to district in India's Uttar Pradesh megastate that has a similar-sounding name to Lakshmipur in Bangladesh.
People in the video are heard shouting in Hindi.
Several Indian media organisations reported the incident and featured similar visuals (archived here and here).
An officer at Uttar Pradesh's forest department confirmed the incident occurred in Lakhimpur Kheri, in a brick kiln in Baburi village.
"Villagers alerted the forest department, leading to the leopard's swift tranquilisation and transfer to forest department's treatment centre," forest ranger Rajesh Dixit told AFP on July 8. "Some forest officials also sustained injuries during this operation."
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