A four-month-old baby died after being thrown from the roof of a three-storey house by a monkey in a rural area of Bareilly, an official said on Sunday.
Bareilly Chief Conservator of Forests Lalit Verma said that the incident has been reported and a team of forest department has been sent for investigation.
Nirdesh Upadhyay (25), reportedly a resident of Danka village in Bareilly, said that he and his wife were walking on the terrace of their three-storey house with their four-month-old son on Friday evening. Suddenly a herd of monkeys appeared on the roof.
The couple tried to drive away the monkeys but they surrounded the instruction. When he tried to run towards the stairs, the child fell from his hand.
Before the instruction could catch the baby, a monkey grabbed the newborn and threw it down from the ceiling. The child fell and died on the spot.