A MUM fought off a tiger with her bare hands after the beast sank its jaws her toddler’s head.
Brave Archana Chaudhary, 25, and her 15-month-old son were in a field in India when the tiger sprang out of bushes and attacked them.
Archana Chaudhary suffered a punctured lung in the attack[/caption]
Husband Bhola with little Rajveer, with his head bandaged[/caption]
The big cat sank its powerful jaws around little Rajveer’s head but his mum leapt into action.
She began punching and kicking the tiger, ignoring the mauling she was getting from the animal, the Times of India reports.
Despite the tiger’s claws puncturing her lungs she kept fighting for two minutes until her screams were heard by villagers.
Her husband Bhola Chaudhary described what happened during the terrifying attack.
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“Rajveer was sitting and Archana was standing nearby,” he said
“Suddenly, a tiger emerged, picked Rajveer and started walking away.
“Archana ran after the tiger for about 5 metres, hitting the tiger with her hands to save her son. The tiger left the child and attacked Archana.”
After villagers used sticks to drive off the tiger, it eventually slinked back into the woods.
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Both Archana and her son were rushed to hospital, where they are being treated for their wounds in the intensive care unit.
As well as a punctured lung, she also suffered injuries to her back, hands and abdomen.
A search is underway to find the tiger in order to drive it further back into its natural habitat in the forest tiger reserve.
It comes after a man survived a tiger attack by playing dead.
Video shows a predator leaping from a hedge across a dirt road as terrified villagers run in panic.
It manages to pin one man down as others watch in horror.
Several heart-stopping seconds go by as the man remains calm and motionless while in the grips of the endangered animal.
Villagers throw stones and shout at the tiger before it finally ran off.
Attacks on people living around the tiger reserves are not uncommon, the BBC reports.
Villagers said apart from tigers, elephants have also been entering their villages and damaging their crops.
People living in areas close to forests and national parks have been witnessing a rise in man-animal conflicts.
Rapid urbanisation is destroying natural habitats, forcing animals to enter villages and towns in search of prey and shelter.
Villagers in India have been known to take their revenge on any tiger they manage to capture.
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Harrowing footage shows a gang of villagers abusing the endangered tigress before the poor animal finally died nine hours later.
