Agra: In a horrific incident, a monkey snatched a 12-day-old baby boy while his mother was breastfeeding him in their house in Kachhara Thok colony of Runkata in outskirts of Agra late night on Monday. The animal mauled the baby to death and the body was recovered from the terrace of a neighbour’s house.The victim’s father, Yogesh (who only uses his first name), said, “The main door of the house was open and my wife was breastfeeding our son. A monkey barged into our house and grabbed my baby’s neck with its mouth and fled.” The father, who drives an auto-rickshaw, was inconsolable. “He was my only child. I never expected his life to end like this,” he said.Family members chased the primate, forcing it to drop the blood-covered infant on the terrace of their neighbour’s house. The baby was declared brought dead at a private hospital.Residents said that simian menace was rampant in their region. Minutes before attacking the infant, the monkey had attacked a 14-year-old girl in the vicinity but she had managed to escape with minor injuries. Residents added that two months ago a toddler in their locality narrowly escaped after being attacked by a monkey.Sub-inspector Atbir Singh, in-charge of Runkata police outpost, said, “The victim’s body has been sent for postmortem and would be handed over to the family. The toddler had wounds on its skull and neck.”It is not just Agra that has to face monkey menace, the primates have also been running riot in other west UP cities.Earlier this month, a bunch of monkeys had stoned a 72-year-old to death in Tikri village in Baghpat.

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