http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010516/od/monkey_dc_1.html Wednesday May 16 7:43 AM ET 'Monkey Man' Hysteria Grips New Delhi Suburbs NEW DELHI (Reuters) - "Monkey man'' hysteria is sowing panic in India's capital, with media reporting that two terrified residents fell to their death on hearing that an ape-like attacker was nearby. Police said on Wednesday that they were no closer to solving the mystery of an ape-like creature which residents accuse of clawing and biting dozens of people in New Delhi suburbs over the past fortnight. "We have consulted doctors about the bites and they said they were by some animal,'' Joint Commissioner of Police Suresh Roy told Reuters. "The information we have is pointing toward an animal. But we checked with the local zoo and they said no animal had escaped from there.'' Media reports said that the collective hysteria claimed a second life early on Tuesday after a pregnant woman sleeping on her terrace was woken by neighbors shouting: "The monkey has come!.'' The woman fell down a staircase and died in hospital. Two nights earlier, an industrial worker died in similar circumstances when he leapt in terror from a building at Noida, a southeastern suburb. Roy said there had been no reports of injuries in the affected areas on Tuesday night. But there had previously been dozens of calls about attacks -- many of them bogus - from people who gave varying and sometimes bizarre descriptions of the now celebrated "monkey man. Two indentikit portraits put together with the help of the creature's victims suggested it was human. One showed a swarthy broad-faced bearded man with a flat nose, thick lips and a piercing stare. The other, which could hardly have been more different, portrayed a narrow-faced man with a receding hairline, a scrappy mustache and dark glasses. The Indian Express quoted a resident of Noida as saying that a creature "as small as a cat'' bit her fingers, and two of her husband's teeth were knocked out by a "metallic hand.'' Two houses away, there was a different story. "It was a monkey alright, and about four foot tall, but as soon as I grabbed it, it turned itself into a cat with tawny, glowing eyes,'' the newspaper quoted a resident as saying. Monkeys run wild in New Delhi and on the outskirts of the city. Sometimes they pounce on unsuspecting pedestrians or enter houses. ------------------ visit: The Psychedelic Groove House of Rockets Basketball Love!
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