Killer Chimps!
Police in Sierra Leone are searching for as many as 20 chimpanzees who killed a taxi driver and injured three Americans. The chimps escaped from a sanctuary for orphaned or abandoned animals.
The Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary in forested hills outside the Sierra Leonean capital Freetown where the incident happened, has been closed since Sunday's attack by the screaming and excited apes, which mobbed and mauled the four men.
"Some people had turned up at the gate before normal opening time, and before staff could react, they realized somebody was being attacked," the sanctuary's director, Bala Amarasekaran told Reuters.
The animals killed local taxi driver Issa Kanu and bit and mauled three U.S. employees of a construction company helping to build the new U.S. embassy in Freetown.
Local villagers are keeping their children home while police and sanctuary employees try to round up the illusive apes. If you should happen to be over in that neck of the woods keep an eye out for the escapees. They're considered armed and extremely dangerous. For your convenience, we have provided a handy reference as to what the chimps may look like:
Kind of adds a whole new dimension to the term "guerrilla warfare", doesn't it?
Foto Phun, Weird Stuff | Gaius Tuesday, 25 April , 2006
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By Black Jack, Tuesday, 25 April , 2006 @ 12:43 pm
Dumb chimp, he’s got the gun upside down, unless that is, he learned to shoot down under from Crocodile Dundee’s ‘roos.
By Gauis Arbo, Tuesday, 25 April , 2006 @ 1:00 pm
Hey, he didn’t get military training! (besides, it’s the only way I could get the silly picture. If I tried to flip it, I couldn’t lift it from the background - I have no idea why…..)