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A monkey has snatched a 12-day-old Indian boy from his mother and killed him, police said.
“A group of monkeys entered the victim’s house and one of the monkeys snatched the baby from his mother who was breastfeeding him, and ran away with the baby,” said Ajay Kaushal, officer in charge of the Sikandra police station.
“The monkey bit the infant’s head and left the baby when people chased it with sticks and threw stones at it.” The bleeding infant was rushed to hospital but declared dead on arrival.

The incident took place on Monday in Runkata town on the outskirts of Agra, home to India’s most famous monument, the Taj Mahal.
The body of the baby boy, identified by The Times of India as Arush, was found on a neighbour’s roof.
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Local environmental activist Shravan Kumar Singh said monkeys were becoming increasingly aggressive as they had been displaced from natural habitats, destroyed by the expanding city.
“Monkeys are everywhere in Agra,” Singh said. “They are in all the five railway stations in the city, in hospitals, hotels and roads. They come in search of food, but they snatch and attack as well.”
In May, a group of monkeys attacked two foreign tourists at the Taj Mahal.

A group of local organisations and individuals are campaigning for authorities to compensate victims of monkey attacks and for the sterilisation of monkeys and their exclusion from legislation protecting wildlife, Singh said.


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Police say a group of monkeys invaded the woman’s house on the outskirts of Agra, home to the Taj Mahal


Police say group of monkeys invaded the woman’s house on the outskirts of Agra, home to the Taj Mahal


Monkey kills 12-day-old baby boy after snatching breastfeeding infant from mother in India

.css-1mniedq{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;}Police say a group of monkeys invaded the woman’s house on the outskirts of Agra, home to the Taj Mahal

Police say a group of monkeys invaded the woman’s house on the outskirts of Agra, home to the Taj Mahal