A monkey was beaten unconscious by an angry mob who "probably thought it was a witch" at a shanty town in South Africa. The vervet monkey was rescued from the mob in the rural community of Msawawa in the municipality of Randburg, in the northern South African province of Gauteng.
Shiven Bodasing, inspector with the NGO National Council of Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA), said they grabbed the beaten and unconscious monkey from an angry mob who had tied a noose around its neck.
It was unclear why the monkey was being beaten but an SPCA said it was probably related to superstition among the people in the poor community where the incident happened.
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