According to news accounts from the area, the monkeys grabbed the baby from his bed while he was asleep.As they dug further into their housework, the distraught parents found their baby's lifeless corpse in a water barrel.
The family lived in the Indian hamlet of Surajpur, and while they were busy with other matters, the monkeys allegedly broke into their home and abducted the youngster.
The neighborhood and family began a mad dash across town in their quest for the missing infant as soon as word got out.
They claim that immediately after the search started, they heard faint sounds coming from the rooftop. Upon further inspection, they found the infant in a water-filled drum, which horrified them.
Police in the area launched an initial inquiry and contacted emergency services as soon as they arrived; thereafter, they sent the baby's remains for a postmortem.
The community is in a state of shock and grief after this horrific event.
According to villagers, this abduction incidence highlights the persistent problem of aggressive monkey behavior in their region. Tragically, this tragedy has prompted demands that local officials do something about the monkey aggressiveness problem and put a stop to other tragedies like this one.
Unfortunately, this is not the first time a monkey has accidentally killed a baby.
The suspected abduction of a two-month-old kid from a terrace and subsequent dumping into a water tank devastated another family in 2022. It became out that monkeys threw the infant into the tank.
Cryptic surveillance footage showed the monkeys removing two-month-old Keshav Kumar from the tank and dragging him away. A female monkey, according to early accounts, may have been acting out following the terrible loss of her own young. This would explain the dreadful event.
The local vets speculated that the bereaved monkey may have confused the human infant for her own. But when she found out the baby wasn't hers, she would throw it away, which would cause the infant's tragic death.