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Baby boy dies after being snatched and dumped in water barrel by ‘aggressive’ gang of monkeys
A GANG of monkeys have reportedly drowned a two-month-old baby after snatching him as he slept.
The child was kidnapped from his bed and was found by his heartbroken parents submerged in a water drum, according to local media.
Men surround a water drum after discovering a two-month-old baby submerged inside[/caption]
A gang of monkeys reportedly drowned the tot after snatching him as he slept in Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh[/caption]
Residents say this tragedy highlights a long-standing issue with aggressive monkey behaviour in the area[/caption]
He was rushed to a hospital in Uttar Pradesh but was pronounced dead on arrival.
The monkeys are believed to have entered the house in the village of Surajpur and carried the infant away as his family were completing daily chores.
Panic soon set in for the parents after they noticed their son was nowhere to be found.
They began searching frantically for any trace of the boy and eventually heard faint cries from the rooftop.
Upon investigation, they discovered the child inside a water-filled drum.
Police responded to the scene, conducted a preliminary inquiry, and sent the body for a postmortem examination.
The incident has left the local community shaken and grieving.
Residents say this tragedy highlights a long-standing issue with aggressive monkey behaviour in the area.
Villagers are now urging authorities to implement effective measures to prevent further loss of life and ensure public safety.
The tragedy comes after a similar case from 2022 when another two-month-old infant was dragged from a terrace and thrown into a water tank by monkeys.
CCTV footage showed the moment Keshav Kumar was carried away by the dangerous primates.
It was speculated that the kidnapping plot may have been led by a female money who had lost her own child.
A local veterinarian claimed the grieving monkey could have mistaken the infant for her own lost child before dumping it once she realised.
India is known to be overrun by rampant monkeys in certain regions.
In Eastern India, one cheeky primate was caught breaking into a railway office and popping himself down at a computer to do some work.
According to reports, the grey langur broke into the office and began mimicking the staff copying what he’s seen the humans do.
It follows another attack on a newborn in Tanzania.
The one-month-old was being breastfed by his mum outside the family home when he was snatched away by a monkey.
Horror footage also emerged in 2022 showing the moment a toddler was snatched by a monkey and dragged away by her hair as she played outside on her scooter.
The unknowing young tot was left with scratches across her face after she was rescued from the vicious attack in China’s Chongqing Municipality.
World’s worst monkey attacks
DESPITE often being adorable looking creatures, monkeys are known to harass, beat, rob and even kidnap humans in broad daylight.
From a baby being snatched by a moped-riding beast to brutal gang muggings here are the worst monkey attacks.
MOPED SNATCH
Haunting footage captured the moment a young girl was snatched from her family as they sat in their driveway in Indonesia.
In the clip, a monkey scoots up the driveway on a miniature motorcycle before quickly snatching the tot away from her mother.
The youngster is dragged a good few feet along the ground by her hair as her family scream for help.
CHINESE HELL
In China, a young girl was taken by a monkey as she played outside on her scooter.
The small girl was left with scratches across her face after she was rescued from the vicious attack in China’s Chongqing Municipality on Tuesday.
A video showed the monkey sneak up on the girl as she she played in the streets, throwing her to the ground before attempting to drag her away.
MUTILATION
The Sun revealed the devastating aftermath of a horrific monkey attack that left a two-month-year-old baby mutilated.
The predator attacked when the baby was in the living room while his mother was in the kitchen.
When she heard her seven-week-old crying, the mum ran into the living room to find her bloodied son on the floor and the animal standing near the front door of the house.
MONKEY MUGGERS
In Malaysia, these ferocious animals are known to patrol the streets of Kuala Lumpur in search of victims they can mug, according a report by The Guardian.
The capital’s population has skyrocketed in the last thirty years, leading to more monkeys in the street as their habitats are destroyed for housing.
The fiendish beasts are known to break into houses and chase people off the streets.
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia has had to resort to “anti-monkey bins” made with heavy lids to stop them from being raided, The Guardian reported.
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Mum of Brit Mia O’Brien locked up in Dubai sets up new fundraiser in desperate bid to free daughter caught with cocaine
THE mum of a Brit law student detained in a hellish Dubai prison and sentenced to life has set up a desperate new fundraiser.
Mia O’Brien, from Huyton, Merseyside, was handed a 25 year prison sentence after she was found with 50g of cocaine, her mum previously revealed.
Mia O’Brien was handed a 25 year prison sentence in United Arab Emirates[/caption]
Her mum Danielle McKenna has set up a new fundraiser[/caption]
She was caught with 50g of cocaine[/caption]
It comes after Mia’s GoFundMe account was suddenly deleted on Friday for violating guidelines.
Taking a swipe at GoFundMe, Danielle McKenna revealed her bank details on Facebook, pleading people to donate directly to her.
Do you have any information on this story? Get in touch at georgie.english@the-sun.co.uk
Blasting the fundraiser website, she said: “I am going to set up my own, as they [GoFundMe] are nitpicking at everything.”
After explaining how direct donations would mean avoiding giving GoFundMe a cut of the cash, she said: “I would just like to thank everyone.”
It comes after heartbroken Danielle issued a plea earlier this week saying Mia had “never done a bad thing in her life”.
Her family said she had made a “very stupid mistake” before being thrown behind bars in a nightmare jail in United Arab Emirates.
The drugs Mia was caught with last October have a street value in the UK of £2,500.
The huge amount of cocaine was found inside Mia’s apartment in “one big chunk”.
The Liverpool University law student was arrested alongside two other people – her friend and the friend’s boyfriend.
All three were charged with drug dealing – before Mia was convicted by a judge after a one-day hearing on July 25.
She was also fined a staggering £100,000 by the court before being sent to Dubai Central Prison, also known as Al-Awir.
The notorious lock-up has been dubbed the affluent city’s version of infamous jail Alcatraz.
“Mia feels she has destroyed her life as she wanted to be a lawyer or solicitor,” Danielle told the Daily Mail.
“I speak to her but she can’t say too much on the phone,” she added.
“She’s just made a stupid mistake after going over to see a friend and her boyfriend in Dubai.”
She was convicted of drug dealing[/caption]
Mia was planning to be a lawyer, her mum said[/caption]
She was given 25 years in jail[/caption]
The mum-of-five said Mia pleaded not guilty to intent to supply the drugs.
But the judge swiftly ended the trial and handed her a life sentence of which she has to serve 25 years.
Danielle said: “The trial was all in Arabic and Mia was told of the sentence later by her lawyer.
“She is absolutely devastated by what has happened. Mia is being really strong but I know she is going through a living hell.”
Mia and Danielle have been in contact as much as possible during the Brit’s jail stint so far.
The young student is sharing a cell with six other women and is forced to sleep on the floor every night with just a mattress and single pillow.
“The prison conditions are horrendous. There are no staff really and she has to bang on a big door if she needs anything,” Danielle revealed.
“She’s seen fights and said she has been really scared.
“She was crying on the phone and saying ‘Oh mum – please forgive me’.”
The Al-Awir prison is notorious for facing dozens of horror allegations of abuse, torture and rape from former inmates[/caption]
A young Mia pictured at a birthday party several years ago[/caption]
Up until today, the family kept the reason why Mia had been jailed private.
Danielle admitted the family were shocked and heartbroken when they learned about the drugs.
Mia has never taken a drug in her life and would never dream of selling cocaine, according to her mum.
Danielle is confident that her daughter is innocent as she labelled Mia a “victim of a miscarriage of justice”.
Adding: “I definitely don’t think she was going to sell the drugs or bring them back.
“It’s a lot of drugs but there are others involved and she has just been caught up in it.”
Mia is due to have an appeal in the next few weeks with her mum hopeful that she will be allowed to return to the UK soon.
Inside ‘Dubai’s version of Alcatraz’
MIA O’Brien has been locked up in the Al-Awir Central Prison in Dubai.
The jail is used for both male and female convicts with them being seperated once they step through the chilling gates.
Women make up one of the four blocks inside the huge jail, according to the British Government website.
Horror stories from inmates who have previously been locked up and those from the families of Brits still trapped behind bars paint a disturbing picture of Al-Awir.
In 2012, Karl Williams was imprisoned for a year after police found drugs in the boot of his hire car.
He compared the Al-Awir jail to the “Dubai version of Alcatraz” during his sentence.
In his memoir, he recalled seeing inmates being stabbed to death in violent clashes that were not stopped by guards.
In a statement, he said that his testicles had been electrocuted while he was interrogated by police.
“They pulled down my trousers, spread my legs and started to electrocute my testicles,” he wrote in the statement.
“It was unbelievably painful. I was so scared. I started to believe that I was going to die in that room.”
Their lawyers also said that the men were forced to sign documents in Arabic at gunpoint.
Karl claimed Russian gangsters ruled the prison wards and allegedly used HIV-positive inmates to rape and deliberately infect others as a form of punishment.
At least four HIV-positive prisoners at Al-Awir were allegedly denied medication up to five months, according to another shocking report by the Human Rights Watch.
British footballer Billy Hood made similar accusations as he said prisoners were tortured and left to die from diseases.
His claims were repeated in 2021 by 60-year-old Albert Douglas who told The Sun Online prisoners are raped, tortured and even starved by the cruel guards.
Dubai’s prison system and government deny all the claims.
Danielle is hoping Mia can secure a clemency deal which will allow her to serve the remainder of her sentence closer to home.
The emotional mum said: “Mia is being really brave about it but she really misses her two young brothers who are aged just five and seven.
“She just wants to come home. I want her home too – she’s my only daughter.
“She can’t wait to come home. She said the prison can be scary but she’s just trying to keep her head down.”
Mia’s story was first shared by her family on GoFundMe as they appealed for donations so they could go and see her.
But on Friday the GoFundMe page mysteriously vanished.
It was later revealed that it had been deleted for violating the website’s guidelines.
A GoFundMe spokesperson told The Sun: “It was removed because it violates Term 9 of the Prohibited Conduct section in our Terms of Service.
“Term 9 prohibits raising funds on GoFundMe for the legal defence of certain alleged crimes.”
The fundraiser – which had a target of £1,600 – made just under £700 before it was removed.
More to follow… For the latest news on this story keep checking back at The Sun Online
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Mum of Brit Mia O’Brien locked up in Dubai sets up new fundraiser in desperate bid to free daughter caught with cocaine
THE mum of a Brit law student detained in a hellish Dubai prison and sentenced to life has set up a desperate new fundraiser.
Mia O’Brien, from Huyton, Merseyside, was handed a 25 year prison sentence after she was found with 50g of cocaine, her mum previously revealed.
Mia O’Brien was handed a 25 year prison sentence in United Arab Emirates[/caption]
Her mum Danielle McKenna has set up a new fundraiser[/caption]
She was caught with 50g of cocaine[/caption]
It comes after Mia’s GoFundMe account was suddenly deleted on Friday for violating guidelines.
Taking a swipe at GoFundMe, Danielle McKenna revealed her bank details on Facebook, pleading people to donate directly to her.
Do you have any information on this story? Get in touch at georgie.english@the-sun.co.uk
Blasting the fundraiser website, she said: “I am going to set up my own, as they [GoFundMe] are nitpicking at everything.”
After explaining how direct donations would mean avoiding giving GoFundMe a cut of the cash, she said: “I would just like to thank everyone.”
It comes after heartbroken Danielle issued a plea earlier this week saying Mia had “never done a bad thing in her life”.
Her family said she had made a “very stupid mistake” before being thrown behind bars in a nightmare jail in United Arab Emirates.
The drugs Mia was caught with last October have a street value in the UK of £2,500.
The huge amount of cocaine was found inside Mia’s apartment in “one big chunk”.
The Liverpool University law student was arrested alongside two other people – her friend and the friend’s boyfriend.
All three were charged with drug dealing – before Mia was convicted by a judge after a one-day hearing on July 25.
She was also fined a staggering £100,000 by the court before being sent to Dubai Central Prison, also known as Al-Awir.
The notorious lock-up has been dubbed the affluent city’s version of infamous jail Alcatraz.
“Mia feels she has destroyed her life as she wanted to be a lawyer or solicitor,” Danielle told the Daily Mail.
“I speak to her but she can’t say too much on the phone,” she added.
“She’s just made a stupid mistake after going over to see a friend and her boyfriend in Dubai.”
She was convicted of drug dealing[/caption]
Mia was planning to be a lawyer, her mum said[/caption]
She was given 25 years in jail[/caption]
The mum-of-five said Mia pleaded not guilty to intent to supply the drugs.
But the judge swiftly ended the trial and handed her a life sentence of which she has to serve 25 years.
Danielle said: “The trial was all in Arabic and Mia was told of the sentence later by her lawyer.
“She is absolutely devastated by what has happened. Mia is being really strong but I know she is going through a living hell.”
Mia and Danielle have been in contact as much as possible during the Brit’s jail stint so far.
The young student is sharing a cell with six other women and is forced to sleep on the floor every night with just a mattress and single pillow.
“The prison conditions are horrendous. There are no staff really and she has to bang on a big door if she needs anything,” Danielle revealed.
“She’s seen fights and said she has been really scared.
“She was crying on the phone and saying ‘Oh mum – please forgive me’.”
The Al-Awir prison is notorious for facing dozens of horror allegations of abuse, torture and rape from former inmates[/caption]
A young Mia pictured at a birthday party several years ago[/caption]
Up until today, the family kept the reason why Mia had been jailed private.
Danielle admitted the family were shocked and heartbroken when they learned about the drugs.
Mia has never taken a drug in her life and would never dream of selling cocaine, according to her mum.
Danielle is confident that her daughter is innocent as she labelled Mia a “victim of a miscarriage of justice”.
Adding: “I definitely don’t think she was going to sell the drugs or bring them back.
“It’s a lot of drugs but there are others involved and she has just been caught up in it.”
Mia is due to have an appeal in the next few weeks with her mum hopeful that she will be allowed to return to the UK soon.
Inside ‘Dubai’s version of Alcatraz’
MIA O’Brien has been locked up in the Al-Awir Central Prison in Dubai.
The jail is used for both male and female convicts with them being seperated once they step through the chilling gates.
Women make up one of the four blocks inside the huge jail, according to the British Government website.
Horror stories from inmates who have previously been locked up and those from the families of Brits still trapped behind bars paint a disturbing picture of Al-Awir.
In 2012, Karl Williams was imprisoned for a year after police found drugs in the boot of his hire car.
He compared the Al-Awir jail to the “Dubai version of Alcatraz” during his sentence.
In his memoir, he recalled seeing inmates being stabbed to death in violent clashes that were not stopped by guards.
In a statement, he said that his testicles had been electrocuted while he was interrogated by police.
“They pulled down my trousers, spread my legs and started to electrocute my testicles,” he wrote in the statement.
“It was unbelievably painful. I was so scared. I started to believe that I was going to die in that room.”
Their lawyers also said that the men were forced to sign documents in Arabic at gunpoint.
Karl claimed Russian gangsters ruled the prison wards and allegedly used HIV-positive inmates to rape and deliberately infect others as a form of punishment.
At least four HIV-positive prisoners at Al-Awir were allegedly denied medication up to five months, according to another shocking report by the Human Rights Watch.
British footballer Billy Hood made similar accusations as he said prisoners were tortured and left to die from diseases.
His claims were repeated in 2021 by 60-year-old Albert Douglas who told The Sun Online prisoners are raped, tortured and even starved by the cruel guards.
Dubai’s prison system and government deny all the claims.
Danielle is hoping Mia can secure a clemency deal which will allow her to serve the remainder of her sentence closer to home.
The emotional mum said: “Mia is being really brave about it but she really misses her two young brothers who are aged just five and seven.
“She just wants to come home. I want her home too – she’s my only daughter.
“She can’t wait to come home. She said the prison can be scary but she’s just trying to keep her head down.”
Mia’s story was first shared by her family on GoFundMe as they appealed for donations so they could go and see her.
But on Friday the GoFundMe page mysteriously vanished.
It was later revealed that it had been deleted for violating the website’s guidelines.
A GoFundMe spokesperson told The Sun: “It was removed because it violates Term 9 of the Prohibited Conduct section in our Terms of Service.
“Term 9 prohibits raising funds on GoFundMe for the legal defence of certain alleged crimes.”
The fundraiser – which had a target of £1,600 – made just under £700 before it was removed.
More to follow… For the latest news on this story keep checking back at The Sun Online
Thesun.co.uk is your go-to destination for the best celebrity news, real-life stories, jaw-dropping pictures and must-see video.
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