Indian woman fights off tiger with stick

Thanks CW5 Jack Cardwell for letting us know that in mid-March 2018 23-year-old Rupali Meshram heard her goat scream that she ran out of her house in western Maharashtra state. Then she picked up a stick and hit the tiger, which then attacked her. Her mother Jijabhai Meshram saved her by pulling her inside the house.
Image: Ms Meshram's head wounds have healed well - her mother Jijabhai Meshram is also on the mend
"They both sustained only minor injuries and have now been discharged from hospital. The goat did not survive.
Ms Meshram took a selfie of her bloodied face soon after the attack, which happened last week but has only just come to light.
A doctor who treated her praised her "exemplary courage" in fighting off the tiger, but said she was lucky not to have been bitten by the animal.
Ms Meshram suffered injuries to her head, waist, legs and hands, but they were only superficial and she has been able to make a full recovery.
Because of her head injury she was given a CT scan and kept under observation.
"I thought my daughter was going to die," her mother Jijabhai told BBC Hindi's Sanjay Tiwari, adding that she had been horrified to see her blood-stained daughter trying to fend off the tiger with a stick."
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