INDORE: The revenge of a stray buffalo in Mandsaur’s Larni village struck terror in a village of Mandsaur on Tuesday evening after it killed a man who was throwing stones at it for attacking a woman 15 days ago.Angered by the stone pelting, the beast stomped on a man and drove villagers to clamber up trees for more than three hours to escape its wrath. The buffalo had attacked a woman from the village two weeks ago after which villagers would throw stones at it every day to drive it away. On Tuesday, the buffalo could not take it anymore. As the first stone came flying towards it, 500 kilos of muscle hurled itself on the villagers.In a flash, it came thundering down the dirt road and swooped up 60-year-old Lalaram Banjara with its horns and hurled him in the air like a rag doll. As Banjara lay critically injured, the bull pounded him repeatedly with all its might and then turned its fury towards the shocked villagers, making them scamper in terror. Some rushed towards the village. Those who found the buffalo in their way climbed trees.As the fuming beast circled the trees, no one dared come down. One of villagers called up the forest department from his mobile phone. Three foresters, led by a deputy ranger, responded to the SOS, but buffalo was keen to sense the new threat.It rushed at the jeep and kept circling it ominously, snorting and shaking its battering-ram-like head to indicate that the rescuers had better stay cooped up. Seeing the buffalo distracted, some villagers clambered down from the trees and climbed atop the jeep now.“There were around 15 villagers perched on our car. We had to call an earth moving machine to help the villagers on top of the trees get down,” said Raghuraj Singh Sisodiya, deputy ranger at Mandsaur.Seeing the earth-moving machine approach, the buffalo realized it was outclassed and moved away. The shaken villagers were rescued from the trees after three hours.