Macaque monkeys drink from juice cartons beside monkey statues exterior the Phra Prang Sam Yod temple in the course of the annual Monkey Buffet Pageant in Lopburi province, north of Bangkok on November 28, 2021. | FILE PHOTO/Agence France-Presse
BANGKOK — Police in central Thailand mentioned they barricaded themselves into their very own station over the weekend, after a menacing mob of 200 escaped monkeys ran riot in town.
The human inhabitants of Lopburi have lengthy suffered from a rising and aggressive monkey inhabitants and authorities have constructed particular enclosures to comprise teams of the unruly residents.
However on Saturday round 200 of the primates broke out and rampaged by city, with one posse descending on a neighborhood police station.
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“We’ve had to verify doorways and home windows are closed to stop them from getting into the constructing for meals,” police captain Somchai Seedee instructed AFP on Monday.
He was involved the marauders might destroy property together with police paperwork, he added.
Visitors cops and officers on guard responsibility had been being referred to as in to fend off the guests, the Lopburi police mentioned on Fb on Sunday.
Monkey assault
Round a dozen of the intruders had been nonetheless perched proudly on the roof of the police station on Monday, pictures from native media confirmed.
Down within the streets, hapless police and native authorities had been working to spherical up rogue people, luring them away from residential areas with meals.
Whereas Thailand is an overwhelmingly Buddhist nation, it has lengthy assimilated Hindu traditions and lore from its pre-Buddhist period.
Because of this monkeys are afforded a particular place in Thai hearts due to the heroic Hindu monkey god Hanuman, who helped Rama rescue his beloved spouse Sita from the clutches of an evil demon king.
1000’s of the fearless primates rule the streets across the Pra Prang Sam Yod temple within the heart of Lopburi.
The city has been laying on an annual feast of fruit for its inhabitants of macaques for the reason that late Nineteen Eighties, half spiritual custom and half vacationer attraction.
However their rising numbers, vandalism and mob fights have made an uneasy coexistence with their human neighbors virtually insupportable.
Lopburi authorities have tried quelling situations of human-macaque clashes with sterilization and relocation applications.
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