The wild monkey attacks have reportedly included a 4-year-old girl who was scratched during an apartment break-in.
A wild monkey bit a teenage girl's leg early Sunday morning, NHK reported. The monkey left the room once but it came back by breaking through the screen window and also bit her mother's leg.
In the same area, two men and two women were also attacked by a monkey between Saturday and Sunday, NHK reported. A man finds selfies and videos of a monkey after recovering his missing phone., also commonly called snow monkeys. These animals are found on three of the four main Japanese islands, including the Yamaguchi island of Honshu. But incidents like these were described as unusual.
"I heard crying coming from the ground floor, so I hurried down," one father told the Japanese press. "Then I saw a monkey hunching over my child."
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