He added: "We have registered a case of unnatural death and are getting an autopsy done. There are bruises on the child's left hand. The baby might have slipped from the clutches of the monkey, and died after falling into the well."
Wild monkeys, who roam free around the town, are often caught causing damage to property and stealing food, but cases of violence are "very rare," according to police.

"We hope to catch the monkey within a week," Pradhan told the BBC. "While monkeys attacking humans or entering houses in search of food are fairly common, this is the first case in which one has run away with a baby."

Family members and other villagers protested outside the Damapada Forest Range office for their failure to properly search for the baby, while demanding more measures be put in place to contain the growing monkey population in the area, reported India's
Indian police say a 16-day-old baby boy believed to have been snatched by a monkey has been found drowned in a well.

The infant was sleeping under a mosquito net at his home in the eastern state of Odisha on Friday when he was taken by a rhesus macaque, a species with a reddish-pink face common across India.

"The mother is saying that she saw a monkey take away her child. She raised an alarm but the monkey quickly leaped over the roof and vanished out of sight," police sub-inspector S.M. Baral told AFP.





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