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A police officer turned his gun on a home intruder with a difference - a violent tortoise .
Charles Onegiu, from the Nebbi district of Uganda, said he shot the creature dead after it entered his grass-thatched hut and became aggressive.
The fearful officer tried to scare it with a stick and a plastic chair before instinctively drawing his gun.
He said: "I tried to scare it but the tortoise became very aggressive.
"I took a stick to chase it but it instead became more violent.
"It then got out of the hut and moved towards the latrine as people rushed to my rescue.
"When it came out, I reached for my gun and shot it dead. It was a very big white tortoise. As I talk now, I am still scared."
He told the New Vision newspaper the incident left him traumatised.
The district's police commander Onesmus Mwesigwa added: "Onegiu called me and narrated how the tortoise came to his house and tried to grab his legs.
“As you know in the villages, there is a lot of superstitions where people think ‘somebody is after me’."
A local Christian group later prayed for the officer, "before burning the dead reptile to ashes."
