Baboons brought to drive away monkeys attack denizens

Suryapet: In a bizarre incident, a baboon which was brought to drive away monkeys from the town has attacked the citizens of four wards in Suryapet Municipal Corporation limits on Thursday midnight.

According to sources, the municipal officials of the Suryapet Corporation brought a few baboons to drive away the monkeys in the town a few days ago. Meanwhile, one of the baboons attacked and injured nine residents of 23, 24, 25 and 26 wards on Thursday night.

Arunkumar, Javed, Lingaiah, Laxmi, Raju, Mahesh, Manohar, Srinu and Nagaraju were among the victims. Further, the same baboon has attacked another three residents on Friday morning. 

All the victims were admitted to government area hospital in Suryapet. Meanwhile, the family members of the victims staged a protest after the doctors failed to treat the injured stating non-availability of suitable medicines.

It came to be known that the cost of injection is Rs 20,000 and doctors advised the victims to go to Hyderabad for treatment. Meanwhile, most of the victims are daily labourers and expressed their displeasure over the attitude of the officials concerned.