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| Monkey attack kills Delhi leader | |
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| The deputy mayor of the Indian capital Delhi has died a day after being attacked by a horde of wild monkeys. | The deputy mayor of the Indian capital Delhi has died a day 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. | 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 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 ordered the city to find an answer to the problem last year. | |
| Solution elusive | Solution elusive |
| One approach has been to train bands of larger, more ferocious langur monkeys to go after the smaller groups of Rhesus macaques. | 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. | The city has also employed monkey catchers to round them up so they can be moved to forests. |
| But the problem has persisted. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. |