Monkeys kill Delhi deputy mayor
Monkeys in India
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.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7055625.stm
This is just sad. 
