A farmer in southern Nepal mistook his son for a monkey trying to steal his crops and shot the 12-year-old dead, police said on Sunday.
Chitra Bahadur Pulami had been climbing a tree to chase away macaques that had become a nuisance to the family but his father Gupta Bahadur, 55, spotted the boy and opened fire, wrongly believing him to be one of the animals.
“The son was hiding in a tree at their farm to chase away monkeys that used to come searching for food in the maize field,” said Arun Poudel, deputy superintendent of police in the remote Arghakhanchi district “The son died on the spot after Gupta Bahadur mistakenly thought there was a monkey in the tree and opened fire. Our preliminary investigation shows that the father was unaware that his son had gone to the maize field to chase the monkeys.
“Both Gupta Bahadur and the gun that he used in shooting his son are now under the custody of the police.” The three species of monkey native to Nepal, the rhesus and Assamese macaque and the common langur, are considered sacred and farmers normally try to scare them away from their crops without injuring the animals.
“I realised my mistake only when my son fell down and got stuck in one of the tree’s branches,” the farmer was quoted as telling police by the Nepali nagariknews.com website
13 comments:
What a pity,but how cld someone mistakenly identify human as money, haba!
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PLS 4GIVE ME, THE SON MUST HAVE BEEN A CARBON COPY OF MONKEY. Seriously may his soul rest in peace
The man ds his eyes examined
I gree with you if his eyes are ok that is he can see well,she shld be charged for murder
What do you expect the guy is old,obviously cld have killed his son if he knew better
Very sad
No parent wishes to bury their kids how much more killing the child mistakenly
This is one of the saddiest story I've ever come across
Let them take heart o!
The woman will be torn,first she she has lost a son not by a stranger but by her own husband
Nawo! hope the man does not commit suicide,bc this kind of case cld be called for such,he wont be able to live with himself
My heart goes out to both parents
Please where is NEPAL
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