| Kashmir monkeys storm city
From the Electronic Telegraph Report of December 28, 1998 |
| SEVERAL people were injured as a horde
of monkeys stormed into Srinagar, the winter capital of Kashmir, and attacked
anyone who tried to
cross their path. Apparently driven by hunger from the nearby jungle, where temperatures have fallen to freezing point, the monkeys raided restaurants, hotels, fruit and tea shops, houses and government offices in search of food. Shrieking menacingly, they barged into an old royal palace and ransacked it and the adjoining state government offices. J N Sathu, Srinagar |