‘World’s most wanted monkey’ is finally ‘arrested’ after attacking 20 people in two-week reign of terror | The Sun
THE "world's most wanted monkey" has finally been "arrested" after attacking 20 people in a two-week reign of terror.
The ferocious primate had a £200 bounty on its head before it was caught in India on Wednesday.
The £200 reward had been posted by fed-up officials and residents in a bid to end the monkey's series of terrorizing acts.
Wildlife experts in Madhya Pradesh used a drone to find the monkey and shot it with a tranquiliser dart before whisking it into a cage.
The wild animal had reportedly attacked at least 20 people including eight children during the two-week stretch.
Officials said that the notorious attacker would often perch on the roofs of homes and on windowsills – apparently looking for its next targets.
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Many of those who were attacked ended up with deep gashes requiring stitches.
NDTV reported that a CCTV camera in the area had captured footage of the beast pouncing on an elderly man before dragging him to the ground.
The multi-second long attack left the man with a deep wound on his thigh.
Local official Vinod Sahu said: "The municipality did not have the means to catch that monkey.
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"We reached out to the District Collector and with his help, called in a rescue team of the forest department from Ujjain.
"The municipality staff and local residents helped them, but it still took four hours to catch the monkey."
He added: "We had offered a cash prize of £200 for catching the monkey. We will give it to the animal rescue team now."
Gaurav Gupta, a forestry officer, said that the local team in Rajgarh had tried to catch the monkey for the past two weeks without success.
He said: "We reached out to special teams in several districts.
"As soon as the Ujjain team was available, they rushed to Rajgarh and after a four-hour operation, we caught the monkey."
The officer added: "Most probably, it will be released in a dense forest area so that it cannot harm people."
This comes after a group of monkeys caused the death of a three-year-old boy in Telangana, India, after they reportedly pushed a boulder off a roof crushing the child to death.
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And in July 2022, a vicious monkey attacked a young girl and left her fighting for her life.
Shocking video showed the primate biting the helpless tot, who was believed to be a Ukrainian refugee, after it escaped from a millionaire neighbour’s zoo.
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