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War against monkeys in L'now |
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By: Agencies |
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Date:
2008-11-07 |
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Place: Lucknow |
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 With an estimated 3,000 monkeys at large in certain residential areas of the Uttar Pradesh capital, local authorities are chasing the animals on a war footing, particularly after a child lost his life to a marauding simian pack. State Forest Minister Fateh Bahadur Singh promptly got his officials into action.
"We have managed to trap two monkeys today and hope to get more over in the next few days," Lucknow's divisional forest conservator CP Goel said.
Said Islamuddin, father of the three-year-old Mohammad Arbaz who died on account of the monkeys, "My children were playing on the terrace of our house when they were surrounded by monkeys.
The children's screams drew other members of the family to their help. While my daughter managed to run down the steps, a terrorised Arbaz got cornered by the attack and fell off the terrace and succumbed to his injuries," he said. |
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