Horde of Wild Monkeys kill Delhi deputy mayor
Pastor Dale Morgan
Horde of Wild Monkeys kill Delhi deputy mayor*
Delhi has long struggled to cope with the marauding monkeys
The deputy mayor of the Indian capital Delhi died on Sunday after being
attacked by a horde of wild monkeys.
SS Bajwa suffered serious head injuries when he fell from the
first-floor terrace of his home on Saturday morning trying to fight off
the monkeys.
The city has long struggled to counter its plague of monkeys, which
invade government complexes and temples, snatch food and scare passers-by.
The High Court demanded the city find an answer to the problem last year.
Solution elusive
One approach has been to train bands of larger, more ferocious langur
monkeys to go after the smaller groups of Rhesus macaques.
The city has also employed monkey catchers to round them up so they can
be moved to forests.
But the problem has persisted.
Culling is seen as unacceptable to devout Hindus, who revere the monkeys
as a manifestation of the monkey god Hanuman, and often feed them
bananas and peanuts.
Urban development around the city has also been blamed for destroying
the monkeys' natural habitat.
Mr Bajwa, a member of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is
survived by his wife and a son, according to the Press Trust of India
news agency.