Staff from India's forest department rescued a snarling wild leopard from the bottom of a deep well in Gujarat state earlier this week.

Footage filmed in Khandheri village in Gir Somnath district on January 13 shows the rescuers using ropes and a special cot to haul the scared feline to safety.

The 5-year-old big cat was being checked for injuries before being released into the wild.

A 5-year-old female leopard that was stranded in a well was rescued by the forest department in western India's Gujarat on January 13. The incident took place in the Khandheri village, located in the Patan-Veraval block of the Gir Somnath district. 

Visuals witnessing the rescue operation features the leopard clinging onto a rope inside the well.

A cot is lowered down so that the leopardess can mount on it while the forest officials attempt to rescue it. After the mammal leaps onto the furniture, the team pulls her up and lures her into a cage, and confines her inside it.

The rescue operation was headed by the forest officials of the Veraval Range. The 5-year-old female leopard was rescued after it got stranded inside a well in Khandheri village.