A man was killed in an illegal cockfight when he was slashed with a blade he had tied to the leg of his rooster.
Thangulla Satish, 45, was preparing the bird for the fight in Lothunur village in southern India when it suddenly fluttered in panic and tried to escape.
He tried to grab it when the three-inch knife tied to its leg impaled him in the groin and he died of blood loss on the way to hospital.
Officers held the bird at a police station before transferring it to a farm as it may be later needed as evidence.