Life is full of peril:
Feb 24, 2000 - 10:02 AM
Report: Thirsty Monkeys Stone Herder to Death in Kenya
The Associated Press
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Thirsty monkeys in drought-affected eastern Kenya
stoned to death a herder watering his livestock, a local newspaper reported
Thursday.
Ali Adam Hussein and other herdsmen had stopped to water their cattle at a
pool in the northeastern Wajir district on Saturday when a group of wild
monkeys attacked them with stones, the independent daily East African
Standard said.

Hussein died from severe head injuries after he was transferred to a
dispensary in Ajawa, the newspaper quoted Abdi Gosho, a nurse in the village,
as saying.

Attempts to confirm the story were unsuccessful. Police in Wajir, contacted
by telephone from the Kenyan capital Nairobi, had no information about the
alleged incident.

The report did not specify what kind of monkey carried out the purported
attack. Baboons have been known to throw objects at rivals.

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