Enraged troop of primates attack 70-year-old woman who falls and hits her head

A 70-year-old woman has died in southern India after being attacked by a pack of rampaging monkeys as she made her way to the bathroom.

Chataraboina Narsavva was at home in her village in Kamareddy district of Telangana state when the aggressive creatures attacked her.

The pensioner, who lived with her daughter in Ramareddy village, was alone at the time of the attack.

Her daughter, who had been away for a wedding, later rushed her mother to hospital, where she died of her injuries.

Instead of being mauled by the animals, police said Narsavva slipped and hit her head on the ground. Times of India reports.

She sustained the injuries she later died from when she tried to escape the mob of monkeys, according to a local police inspector.

Named as Anil, the inspector added that Narsavva had not been bitten by the monkeys during the attack.

“We learned through the locals that when the monkeys attacked her, she tried to escape.

During the process, she slipped and fell down. She suffered a head injury and died,” said the Ramareddy police station superintendent.

Narsavva’s family cremated her shortly after her death and police are continuing the investigation.

The deadly attack is just the latest in a long line of monkey-related tragedies in India, which is home to millions of primates.

Last year, a five-year-old girl died after being overrun by ferocious monkeys in the state of Uttar Pradesh.

The young girl, named Narmada, was playing on the banks of the Nakatiya River in Bareilly.

As the group of children cried for help, local villagers rushed to the scene and rescued the injured girl from the monkeys. India times reported.

The little girl, who was bleeding after being ‘bitten almost everywhere’, was rushed to hospital where she died of her injuries.

In 2021, the mother of eight-day-old twins claimed her babies had been snatched by ferocious monkeys, killing one of the little girls and saving the other.

In 2020, a mother and four of her children were crushed to death at their home in Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh after a wall was knocked down by a pack of monkeys.

The five victims were killed by falling masonry after the wall was “shaking violently” by monkeys while the family slept in the courtyard.

2019, a 50-year-old man died in Sambhal after falling from a terrace near his house when attacked by monkeys.

According to reports, it was the sixth monkey-related death in Sambhal alone in 2019.

Just months earlier, a A month and a half old baby was killed by a monkey who apparently jumped into her crib to steal her milk bottle.

Also in the same year, a monkey killed a 60-year-old man and injured nine others after stampeding through a town in central India.

In 2018, a 58-year-old woman suffered serious injuries and died after being attacked by a monkey outside her home in Agra, Uttar Pradesh.