A cow running across an airport runway in India led an Etihad Airways flight to divert its course. 

The flight, which was en route from Abu Dhabi, was scheduled to land at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in Ahmedabad - one of the largest cities in Gujarat - last Thursday, Times of India reports. 

But after people spotted a cow running across the runway, the plane had to abort its landing and head to a Mumbai airport. 

According to the Times of India, airport sources said the bizarre incident took place around 3 am and scores of airport staff struggled "for nearly an hour and a half to remove the cow from the operational area."

In addition to the Etihad aircraft, another cargo plane was also diverted due to the incident. 

The incident, which sparked security concerns among hundreds of thousands of travelers, is currently being investigated. 

According to local news sources, India's airport authority has ordered a detailed report on the matter from Ahmedabad's airport director.

In an official statement issued shortly after the incident, the authority representatives said:

"The chairman has asked the airport director to ascertain the possibility of negligence. Directives have been given to take stringent steps to avoid any such occurrences in future."

An Indian man who secretly filmed a woman while she showered at a staff accommodation property in Dubai will be sent to jail, Khaleej Times reported. 

The 21-year-old defendant was handed down a three-month jail sentence by Dubai's Court of First Instance. He is set to be deported from the emirate after he serves his time in prison. 

During the court hearing, judges were told the man had "peeped through a small hole in the bathroom wall and filmed the woman with his mobile phone as she took a bath."

Though he initially admitted his crime to authorities, the man later denied the charges held against him in the case, which dates back to October 2017. Nevertheless, he was still found "guilty of breaching a woman's modesty and privacy."

During interrogations, the woman at the center of the incident, a 28-year-old Filipino receptionist, shared chilling details of the case. 

"Around midnight, I was in the shower in my accommodation when I suddenly spotted the reflection of a man filming me using a mobile phone. I turned around and saw him standing at the small window of his room," she said. 

Shocked and terrified by what she had just seen, the woman screamed for help, calling out to her flatmates. An administrator at the defendant's workplace rushed to the scene on the night of the incident after he got a call from the victim.

In his witness statement, the man said when he arrived at the scene, the victim was distraught. 

"We seized the staff's mobile phones, including the defendant's. They all denied filming the woman. But when we told them we would report the incident to the police, the accused eventually admitted he filmed the complainant 'unintentionally' three times and then deleted all the clips without watching them," he explained. 

After the case was referred to authorities, the defendant admitted he had "climbed to the small window in his bathroom and used his mobile phone to secretly film the woman. He claimed he deleted the video clips shortly after she spotted him."