Monkey Attack: 10-Year-Old Child Mauled to Death by Gang of Vicious Monkeys in Indian Village

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A 10-year-old boy in India died as a result of severe injuries sustained in a monkey attack. The police said the incident happened in Salki village in Gujarat's Gandhinagar. The monkey attack occurred near a temple in Dehgam Taluka.

The Brutal Attack

The boy was rushed to a nearby hospital, but he died before physicians could even start treating him. The police identified the victim as Dipak Thakor, who was playing with his friends when he was terrorized by a notorious group of monkeys.

The monkeys then leaped atop the child, puncturing his skin and driving their claws deep inside him.

"His intestine was ripped out in the attack. He rushed to his house and was taken to a hospital where doctors declared him dead on arrival," an official said.

Authorities have stated that they are still looking for some of the monkeys involved in the incident. This was the third monkey attack on the villagers of Salki village in a week.

Monkey Attack on Humans

India is no stranger to monkey attacks, as human encroachment on animal habitats has increased across the country. Monkeys are frequently sighted in tourist places, and there have been several reports of the animals injuring people and even other animals, such as dogs, in the past.

Authorities have been attempting to capture monkeys near Salki village, according to forest official Vishal Chaudhary.

"We have rescued two langurs in the past one week, and set up cages to trap another langur. There is a large troop of monkeys in the village, including four adults who have been involved in attacks in the past one week. Two of them have been rescued. Efforts are on to cage another," he added.

Earlier this year, a monkey with a $21,000 bounty on its head was apprehended after terrorizing residents of Madhya Pradesh's Rajgarh town for two weeks and attacking 20 people. The rescue crew used a drone to locate the monkey, then tranquilized it with darts before placing it in a cage.

In December 2021, two monkeys were apprehended by the forest department in India's western Maharashtra state for allegedly killing puppies in an "act of revenge," as recounted by residents.

Residents of Lavool village in the state's Beed region reported that monkeys were killing puppies by carrying them up trees or to rooftops and then dropping them to their deaths.

A group of monkeys attacked a laboratory worker in May 2020 and stole COVID blood samples.

The animals allegedly pursued the technician as he walked across the campus of a medical college in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh's northernmost city.

When former US President Donald Trump visited India in 2020, police armed with catapults were deployed to guard him from a swarm of feral monkeys during his visit to the Taj Mahal.

This year, officials in India's capital New Delhi, used trained "monkey men," or impersonators, as well as cut-outs of larger primates, to drive away battalions of rhesus macaques from the site of the G20 meeting.