A MAN has been killed in India after a monkey threw a brick at him from the second floor of a building. Local police confirmed that 30-year-old Mohammad Kurbaan was killed after being hit in the head with the falling brick in Central Delhi’s Nabi Karim area. Kurbaan, who sold bags from a shop in the area, collapsed after being hit with the brick and was taken to hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead. While investigating, police discovered that the owner of the building which the bricks were thrown from had left two bricks above a water tank to prevent monkeys from opening it. Police said that a group of monkeys had managed to remove both of the bricks, throwing one at Kurbaan and hurling another onto a nearby terrace. The incident comes after the wife of a leader of a major political party in India has fallen to her death while trying to escape a monkey attack. Sushma Devi, 50, was rushed to hospital but sadly died of her injuries. She is the wife of Anil Kumar Chauhan, leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party. The incident took place Sept. 9 when she was attacked by aggressive monkeys on the terrace of her house in Kairana city. To avoid the attack she jumped down from the terrace. Feral monkeys have been causing havoc in the Shamli district of Uttar Pradesh in northern India, with local authorities cracking down. Local residents claim there have been daily monkey attacks on children too. In November 2019, two attacks claimed the lives of a 12-day-old baby and a 58-year-old woman in the city of Agra. During the first attack, monkeys broke into a woman’s home while she was breastfeeding her child, snatched the baby from her, and bit it to death. In the second attack, a 58-year-old woman was bitten by monkeys as she went to relieve herself outside her home on the outskirts of the city and bled to death. Monkeys have also inadvertently caused deaths – in January last year a woman hanging washing on her roof died after monkeys attacked her. She slipped and fell. (SD-Agencies) | 