Baboon kills baby boy
2003-06-05 21:13
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Rustenburg - A three-month-old baby boy died on Thursday after being abducted from his bedroom and bitten on the head by a baboon at Madipelesa village on Tuesday, North West police said.
Superintendent Louis Jacobs said 34-year-old Betty Tukane was washing dishes around midday and left her infant, Neo, sleeping inside her house in the village near the border between the North West and the Northern Cape.
She heard the baby screaming and ran into the bedroom to see him being carried away by the baboon.
Tukane tried to rescue her son but the baboon evaded her. The mother called for help and neighbours came with dogs. The baboon became aggressive and bit the child on the head and dropped him before disappearing into thick bush that surrounds the village.
- SAPA