Delhi's Monkey Menace

Daily Telegraph:

A rogue monkey has been blamed for terrorising a slum area of eastern New Delhi, biting children and even grabbing a two-month-old baby from the arms of its mother.

Women and children queued up to show off their wounds after being treated in hospital after the monkey attacked in the Shashtri Park area of the Indian capital, breaking into houses through roofs and along balconies.

"I thought it was a man at first," one resident told The Times of India. "It got hold of my son's leg and was carrying him away but I managed to snatch him back..

It is less than a month since the Delhi's former deputy mayor was killed after falling from the balcony of his New Delhi residence as he tried to fight off several monkeys who had ganged up on him...