‘Alcoholic’ monkey ‘kills man and injures 250 others in crazed rampage after being starved of booze’
AN ALCOHOLIC monkey has left one man dead and 250 injured after going on the rampage when he was starved of booze, according to reports.
Kalua, formerly the pet of an occultist, was fed liquor at his home in Uttar Pradesh, India.
But when his owner died, he stopped getting his supply of booze and went on a “biting spree”, according to the Indo-Asian News Service (IANS).
Kalua, six, viciously targeted women and girls, with dozens of children reportedly needing plastic surgery after he savagely ripped open their faces with his fangs.
One of his victims died.
The monkey was eventually caught and will now remain in captivity for life at Kanpur zoo, where he is reportedly hostile to female zookeepers and other monkeys.
FILLED WITH RAGE
Zoo doctor Mohd Nasir said: “We kept him in isolation for some months and then shifted him to a separate cage.
“There has been no change in his behaviour and he remains as aggressive as he was.
“It has been three years since he was brought here, but now it has been decided that he will remain in captivity all his life.”
Scientists discovered that Kalua was also addicted to eating meat, suggesting it could be another possible cause of his “indefatigable anger”.
It comes after a monkey on a tiny bike snatched a toddler and dragged the child down the street in Indonesia.
In the clip, a little monkey sped down an alley before approaching a group sat on a bench with a toddler.
After abandoning the bike, the monkey clung onto the youngster’s clothing, dragging the child for several feet.
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A troop of monkeys also attacked a medical official and snatched away blood samples of patients who had tested positive for coronavirus at the end of May.
The attack occurred when a lab technician was walking in the campus of a medical college in India.
Dr S.K. Garg said: “Monkeys grabbed and fled with the blood samples of four COVID-19 patients who are undergoing treatment … we had to take their blood samples again.”
Authorities feared that monkeys may contract the virus if they came in contact with the blood but at the time no evidence had been found.