Monkeys Injure Welfare Hostel Girls in Anakapalli District

Visakhapatnam: Two girls of a hostel run by the Social Welfare department in Ravikamatham suffered injuries when monkeys entered the premises on Saturday night.The girls’ hostel, surrounded by a compound wall, houses 96 students. The monkeys scaled the wall and invaded the building while the girls had been sleeping. Some of the monkeys entered the rooms and attacked 12-year-old Palli Sneha, a Class 7 student, and 13-year-old Seedari Manga, a Class 9 student, biting them multiple times.The warden quickly took the injured girls to the Ravikamatham Community Health Centre for first aid, before handing over the girls to their parents.The attack comes just a month after stray dogs broke into the same hostel and bit 25 students. Saturday’s attack has spread fear among children and their parents.Hostel students say the attack is not an isolated incident. Monkeys have entered the hostel several times before and roamed freely without any preventive action.The incident has sparked criticism. Speaking to Deccan Chronicle, CPM leader K. Govinda Rao charged that indiscriminate mining permissions given in Anakapalli and Alluri Sitarama Raju districts are driving monkeys from forests into human settlements. He attributed the repeated animal attacks on girls to official negligence, charging that authorities have failed to protect the vulnerable students.



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