Six monkeys attack people in Algiers

Six monkeys attacked a residential area in eastern Algiers Saturday biting a seven-year-old girl amid fears among residents of possible casualties.

• The staff of a school in the area of Staouali could not capture a donkey after it entered the school and jumped over a girl.
• Residents say another monkey entered their area and wounded a new born baby who was taken to hospital afterwards.
• According to the same source, six monkeys attack the area from time to time triggering fear among the residents while forest guards did not react.
• Some parents do not allow their children in the street while others accompany them to the school fearing of the monkeys.
• An old woman said she saw a monkey entering her house and eating all the figs in her fig-tree.
• She also saw another monkey jumping on the balcony while a shop keeper says monkeys entered his shop and ate his peanuts.
• Residents believe that those monkeys come from the nearby forest Bouchaoui and they likely run away from their owners.
• Others say they are wild and they may carry rage or any other disease.
• The residents asked the help of municipal agents to capture the monkeys before they reach their children but no one has intervened yet.