A woman has been impaled with a steel rod right through her body after she fell more than 20ft as she tried to escape a monkey attacking her.
Incredible footage and photos show 20-year-old Khatija lying in a hospital bed with the pole still through her body, after her family managed to cut her free from where she fell.
The freak accident occurred as she stood on a roof area in her home town of Azamgarh, in Uttar Pradesh, India when she was reportedly accosted by a group of monkeys.