A monkey causing chaos in a town in Japan has been hunted down and killed by furious locals. The “specially commissioned hunters” found and executed the pesky primate, part of a “gang” that had been at the heart of weeks of terror.It was tranquilised and then euthanised, having been singled out as involved in one of the many attacks carried out in the city.
It wasn’t known whether the four-year-old was one of the leading figures in the more high-profile attacks.READ MORE: Cops hunt rogue monkey after 18 people including baby injured in two-week rampageThe “gang” had carried out more than 50 attacks in the southern city of Yamaguchi, scratching and biting residents and leaving many scared to go out.
The Japanese macaques have developed aggressive techniques, the BBC reports, learning how to open doors and windows and getting into peoples’ homes.
There have been reports of one macaque breaking into a room and trying to snatch a baby.Speaking to the Mainichi Shimbun Daily the baby’s father said: "I heard crying coming from the ground floor, so I hurried down."Then I saw a monkey hunching over my child."Another report claims that a second broke into a classroom of reception-age children and leapt on a four-year-old girl.Residents in the city are understood to have been taking their own measures, arming themselves with weapons to defend themselves against the marauding monkeys.Garden pruners and umbrellas are understood to be common parts of Yamaguchi folks’ armoury.
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