Monkey mayhem

Nov 19 2007

Up to 25 people were injured in India when a wild monkey went on the rampage, according to reports at the weekend.

Villagers in the Shastri Park area of New Delhi often sleep on open roofs to escape the heat and the monkey attacked a number of people, most of them children.

Rhesus macaque monkeys have become increasingly bold as the country’s forest cover shrinks and have overrun government buildings, temples and residential areas, sometimes biting people and snatching