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Amy Walters & Leonie Chao-Fong

Child watches helplessly as stray bull mauls mum while dad tries to wrestle beast

A family were left fearing for their lives after the motorbike they were on was attacked by a bull.

The terrifying incident took place on November 25 in Junagadh, western India.

Video footage shows the bull chasing the family as they are riding a motorbike down an alleyway, as another motorcyclist approaches from the opposite direction.

The bull circles the family before knocking them down and dragging the woman across the ground.

As the woman is thrown around, the father and the other biker try to intervene and wrestle with the bull as the child stands helplessly in the background.

In a clip, a bull is seen chasing the family, who are riding a motorbike down an alleyway (Jam Press Vid/Newslions)
The bull circles the family before knocking them to the ground (Jam Press Vid/Newslions)

One of the men is able to catch the bull off-guard and shields the woman behind him, and as she rushes to comfort the child, the bull chases after one of the men.

A third man then arrives at the scene with a large stick to try and distract the bull.

As the bull backs away, a fourth person is seen whipping the bull until it leaves.

In September, footage captured a woman being attacked by a leopard as she sat on her balcony in Maharashtra, north India, before managing to fend it off with her walking stick.

As the bull picks up and throws the woman around, the father and the other motorcyclist try to wrestle with the animal, (Jam Press Vid/Newslions)
The child stands in the background (Jam Press Vid/Newslions)

Nirmaladevi Singh, 55, bravely fought off the animal as it ambushed her before crying out for help.

In the clip, the leopard can be seen prowling around the outdoor space of her home before approaching the woman.

She turns around at the last moment and the creature suddenly leaps up at her, causing her to fall to the ground before using a stick to beat the leopard away while it continually claws at her.

The big cat backs off as she continues to hit it, before other people then come to her aid.

biker approaches the scene from the opposite direction. The bull circles the family before knocking them to the ground and dragging the woman across the floor. As the bull picks up and throws the woman around, the father and the other motorcyclist try to wrestle with the animal, while the child stands in the background. One of the men catches the bull off-guard and shields the woman behind him (Jam Press Vid/Newslions)

She suffered scratch marks to her face, elbow, arm, back and leg, but her injuries were luckily minor.

The incident was the second leopard attack in the last three days in the area.

And just a few weeks prior to this incident, video footage captured the chilling moment a 14st snarling hyena emerged from tall grass and pounced on an elderly man.

In the clip, the OAP can be seen walking his tiny dog along a road in a village near India's western city of Pune, when a vicious hyena pokes out of the grass to his left.

The predator approaches and pounces on the terrified old man, before moving on to a motorcyclist riding past.

Someone immediately comes to his aid but the creature warns him away by bearing his teeth.

The man narrowly escaped with his life after the attack in Kharpudi village, in India's western city of Pune, according to reports.

Forest officials later found the enormous beast's dead body 28 miles away.

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