A 65-YEAR-OLD woman has died after being set upon and attacked by a troop of feral monkeys, Makkal Osai reported.
She tried to run away when she saw the monkeys approaching her as she was returning home from her farm in a village in India’s southern state of Andhra Pradesh.
However, the poor villager slipped and fell, and was mauled by the simians.
She was on the way home where she lived with her daughter’s family.
The cause of the attack was not known.
Police said villagers and farmers in the Kakinada area have faced problems with feral monkeys for some time.
> About 200 students of classical Indian violin staged an impressive performance in conjunction with their graduation ceremony, Malaysia Nanban reported.
The students are from the Sri Raagavaendhera Arts Academy which held its convocation ceremony at the Temple of Fine Arts in Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur.
The above article is compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with this ' >'sign, it denotes a separate news item.
