Strange: Chimpanzee grabs baby from woman, kills it
A two-month-old baby girl has died in Kagadi after being attacked by a chimpanzee. The deceased has been identified as Aroho Ahumuza, daughter of Kunihira Kasaija, a resident of Karuswiga central cell in Muhorro town council.
The child was attacked by the chimpanzee on Monday evening while being carried by her mother. Ahumuza was on her way to harvest cassava when the chimpanzee emerged from the nearby bush, snatched the child from her, and ran back into the bush with the minor.
She sounded an alarm that attracted the attention of area residents, who pursued the chimpanzee. The residents later discovered that the child had been dumped by the chimpanzee in the nearby bush after inflicting on her severe injuries on the head, mouth, and chest.
Kasaija said that the child was rushed to Kagadi Community Health Center for medical attention, but she was pronounced dead a few hours later. He has appealed to the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) to intervene and relocate the chimpanzees immediately and compensate him for the loss of his child.
Dr. Julius Birungi of Kagadi Community Health said that the injuries inflicted on the child by the chimpanzee were severe, and he recommended that the child be referred to Mulago for further management but the parent did not have the money for transport. Birungi has tasked UWA to relocate chimpanzees from the Muhorro town council area to reduce human-wildlife conflict cases.
The story lacks some facts, a chimp can't snatch a child from the back of the mother, either she run and abandoned the baby, or she'd put the baby down as she worked.
According to injuries described by the doctor, the chimps intention was to play with the baby not to kill it,in ideal chimp to chimp situations that baby wouldn't have sustained any injuries, but a human baby can roll and grab the adults arm and jumped on the back of the chimp ride for afew meters and jump off each taking their own direction or keep playing, but in this situation, the baby was drugged face down for a time sustaining injuries from anything that came in contact with her body/ face..
If the chimp had grabbed the kid from the mum's back it would have carried it not drag it
As you call on UWA to intervene kindly learn to live with these chimps, you people occupied its feeding home range,shouting and making alarms irritates chimps and force them to run with whatever they've grabbed an ba…