Japanese city's tranquiliser gun war on rampaging macaques as monkeys bite 42 people
dailystar.co.ukmacaques who have bitten 42 people, including children and the elderly.The wild monkeys have been on a rampage in Yamaguchi city, in the deep south of the main island of Honshu, with people being scratched and bitten legs, hands, necks and stomachs.The beasts scratched the legs of a four-year-old girl and on one occasion even broke into a nursery school.READ MORE: Shark expert warns ‘we are going to get more fatalities’ as bait fish thrivePolice say a monkey bit the leg of a teenage girl early Sunday morning.
The monkey left the room once, but came back after breaking the window. The primate also bit the girl's mother's leg.According to NHK, later in the morning a macaque snuck into a room on the fourth floor of an apartment building in the same neighbourhood and bit a woman on the hands.Five more people were bitten soon after, prompting police to use tranquilliser guns.Police patrols were stepped up after the first attack in July, but traps have failed to catch the culprit, or culprits.Authorities actually aren't sure whether the wave of attacks is the work of one rogue monkey, or a gang."It's rare to see this many attacks in a short period of time," said one city official, declining to give their name. "Initially only children and women were attacked.
Recently elderly people and adult men have been targeted too."For the latest breaking news and stories from across the globe from the Daily Star, sign up for our newsletter by clicking here.The macaques often enter through sliding doors or through open windows. "I heard crying coming from the ground floor, so I hurried down," one father told Japanese press.
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