A man removed a plastic container from a monitor lizard's head after the animal was spotted struggling in northern India's Himachal Pradesh.

The footage, filmed on September 15 in Sundar Nagar, shows the reptile struggling to move freely with the container stuck on its head.

As one man pins down the lizard, another is able to slowly remove the container from the reptile's head.

The pair then let go of the animal seeing it scurry away.