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A vicious monkey snatched a newborn from the arms of his mother who was nursing him and bit him to death in a shocking attack in India.
The 12-day-old baby was in his mother's arms inside their home in Agra when the animal suddenly came in and grabbed the boy, the BBC reported.
The locals ran after the offending animal until it finally dropped the seriously injured on the roof of a neighbor, according to the report.
The baby, severely mutilated, died as a result of his injuries at the hospital.
"The monkey bit the infant's head and only dropped it when people chased him with sticks and threw stones at him," Ajay Kaushal, the officer in charge of the police station, told Reuters. neighbor police.
The family was devastated.
"There are too many monkeys in the area," said baby's uncle, Dhirendra Kumar, at the BBC. "We live in fear. We have asked the administration so many times for help, but it has not done anything. The baby's mother is too upset to talk.
The baby's grandmother, Pushpa Devi, told the station that the family would never recover from this sudden and shocking loss.
"I lost my grandson," said Devi. "Only a few hours before the monkey attacked our baby, I had it in my arms. Our baby did not have to die. People will talk about it for a while then forget it. But we have to live with the fact that our baby is gone. "
This marks the latest in a series of monkey attacks in the city, which is also home to the Taj Mahal.
Shravan Kumar Singh, a local environmental activist, told Reuters: "Monkeys are everywhere in Agra," adding that the animals have become more aggressive after being moved from their natural habitats. "They come in search of food, but they catch and attack too."
Some local organizations are asking the authorities to compensate the victims of the attack of the monkey, to sterilize the animals and to exclude them from the legislation protecting wildlife, Singh said.
With postal wires
