A Ukrainian farmer has claimed to have killed the legendary blood-sucking chupacabra after it was terrorising his livestock.
The creature was reportedly hunted down by the man, known only as Ivan, with a pitchfork when it stalked into one of his barns in search of food.
The chupacabra is folklore in parts of the Americas and was purportedly first seen in Puerto Rico.
It has since been allegedly sighted in countries around the world including Russia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine.
In this instance it was caught in the village of Rukshin, in western Ukraine's Chernivtsi region, where local people claim the beast has been getting into cages containing chickens and rabbits and sucking all the blood from their bodies.
Ivan said: 'The chupacabra was hunting and I killed it. It had been scaring local people for a long time. It was eating our chickens and rabbits.'
Veterinarians have been studying the animal's dead body but have so far failed to positively identify it.
Valeriy Dopiryak, the head of the Regional State Laboratory of Veterinary Medicine, said: 'This animal resembles an African fox, but its teeth, neck, ears and paws are too long. We can't say what it is.'
Another local man, Viktor, claims there was not one chupacabra, but two.
He said the other one resembled a kangaroo, with a longer body and shorter front paws, and had run away.
Villagers claim they have been too frightened to leave their homes in case the chupacabras kill their animals.
Chupacabra are thought to be capable of jumping over 6 foot fences and are said to have killed their chickens and rabbits by sucking the blood from their bodies.
'Chupacabra' means 'goat sucker' and comes from the animal's reported habit of attacking and drinking the blood of livestock.
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