article_snippet.sent: The incident took place in Olani village, four kilometres from Manpur, in central India and was recorded by terrified villagers from the relative safety of hut rooftops.
article_snippet.sent: Mahendra Sharma, a school teacher, said: 'Even the armed forest officials seldom muster courage to fight a beast.'
article_snippet.sent: In last year's Indian elections, rural communities blamed the government for placing rural communities at risk of leopard attacks by failing to provide basic infrastructure such as electrical lighting and street lighting.
article_snippet.sent: The dramatic incident recorded by a terrified onlooker took place in Olani village, in central India .