Monkeys drop crude bombs in UP, 3 injured

KANPUR: Three people, including a child, suffered grievous injuries when monkeys dropped a polythene bag containing ' sutli' (crude) bombs on them in Manu Ka Purwa locality of Fatehpur on Thursday.
The bag contained the kind of bombs that explode after hitting any object. All the injured were rushed to a nearby hospital where they were being treated for burns and splinter injuries.
Reports said Gulab Gupta, 60, and his 5-year-old grandson Samrat were hit by the bombs when they were waiting for the child's school bus outside their house. When the simians dropped the polythene bag on them, the bombs exploded with a deafening sound, leaving the duo and a passerby critically injured. Locals rushed to the spot and took the trio to hospital. They also alerted the police.
"The monkeys had possibly picked up the bag containing crude bombs from a garbage dump and were playing on the terrace of a house when they suddenly dropped it on the victims," said SHO Kotwali Suresh Chandra Omhare. "Doctors have said that the injured are out of danger but Samrat has suffered severe burn injuries. We have contacted municipal authorities and the forest department to trap the simians at the earliest," he said.