الحق يا سجيمان قرود اريترية تهجم على كسلا

Monkeys go ape, attack women and children in Sudanese city

KHARTOUM, Aug 19 (AFP) - Hordes of monkeys are running wild in the Sudanese state capital Kassala, attacking women and children and #####ng shops for food, Al-Anbaa newspaper reported Thursday

The groups are going on the rampage in two suburbs of the city, close to the frontier with Eritrea, the newspaper said

The monkeys launch "organised attacks which last several hours", targetting "bakeries and grocery stores"

They attack women and children, run into homes, "breaking kitchen utensils and snatching food from the children" and open the doors of refrigerators to get at the food inside, according to one resident, Salah Osman al-Khedr

He put the phenomenon down to the wholesale cutting down of trees which has deprived the monkeys of their sole source of food. The attacks start at dawn and sometimes last until dusk, he said