Animal rescuers smash walls to save monitor lizards trapped in gaps in Indonesian homes.

Footage filmed in Parik Putuih Village - Agam, West Sumatra Province on June 16, shows an animal rescue team disturbing a monitor lizard caught in a gap, but the reptile stills motionless.

Rescuers were forced to break through the wall to free the 5ft-long monitor lizard.

Syawaldi Waldi, an animal rescue officer from the Bukittinggi Reptile Animal Community (B-Reptanic), said that previously residents saw two monitor lizards entering the settlement.

Residents tried to catch them, but one monitor lizard escaped into a ditch, while another climbed over the fence and got caught in the gap and got stuck there.

"We tried to get the lizard out in various ways but failed until we got permission to break through the wall as the only way to save it," Waldi added.

The monitor lizard was finally released from the gap in a weak condition.

After the monitor lizard's physical condition improved or stabilized, officers released it into the monitor lizard's habitat in Ngarai Sianok, Bukittinggi.