A 73-year-old Daniel M’Mburugu used his bare hands to tear out the tongue of a leopard that attacked him and killed it, a newspaper said of an incident confirmed by the Kenya Wildlife Service.

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The 73-year-old Daniel M’Mburugu was working in his potato garden near Mount Kenya in the centre of the country when the animal, apparently aggressive, hurtled from nearby grass and charged towards him.

“It let out a blood-curdling snarl that made the birds stop chirping. I froze for some seconds, then it dawned on me that death was staring at me on the face,” he told the Standard Newspaper.

M’Mburugu, a peasant farmer, dropped the machete he was carrying and forced his hand into the leopard’s mouth, pulling out its tongue in an act of self-defence, according to the report in the daily.

“A voice, which must have been from God, whispered to me to drop the panga (machete) and thrust my hand into its wide open mouth, I obeyed,” he said, explaining that the leopard sank its teeth into his wrist, but would not let go.

As the struggle continued, M’Mburugu realised the animal’s “breathing was belaboured”, prompting him to keep pulling the tongue.

Villagers only responded when the animal lay dying and he gained instant status as a village hero, the paper said.

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