Daijiworld Media Network - Karkala (SP)
Karkala, Oct 27: In a development which is sure to melt the hearts of kind people, over 20 monkeys were found to have been killed by poisoning them. The incident happened near Someshwar in Hebri taluk.
It looks like the act of some people who faced problems on account of these monkeys. The monkeys were poisoned elsewhere, before being bundled in four gunny bags and dropping the gunny bags in the second road bend on Agumbe Ghat road.
Tourists who saw the monkeys, some of which were still struggling for life, provided water to them. But within minutes, they breathed their last.
In all likelihood, owners of plantations whose fruits or other products would have been eaten up or damaged by the monkeys would have been involved with this heinous act. Similar acts were reported from some other areas in the recent past.