Agencies
The body of a 17-day-old baby, who was stolen by a monkey on Saturday, was found in a well near his home in Odisha’s Talabasta village on Sunday.
The baby boy of Ramakrushna Nayak was sleeping inside a mosquito net on the courtyard of his home on Saturday morning when the monkey crept up and fled with the newborn.
His mother, who woke seeing the monkey flee with the baby, could not do anything.
A massive search involving police, fire and forest officials yielded no result on Saturday.
The baby’s body was found in the well near the Nayak’s home on Sunday morning.
“Most probably, the monkey had dropped off the baby in the well soon after it took off,” said Biswaranjan Sahoo, inspector of Banki police station, adding that this was the first time he had come across such a case in his career.
“The body has now been sent to a local hospital for post-mortem,” Sahoo said. |
