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  • From: Josh Greenman <joshg1973 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: monkeywire AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [monkeywire] Man Shoots Wife, Mistakes Her for Monkey
  • Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 09:42:19 -0700 (PDT)

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040922/od_nm/people_malaysia_dc_1

Man Shoots Wife, Mistakes Her for Monkey

Wed Sep 22, 8:44 AM ET

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A Malaysian man shot and killed his wife after he
mistook her
for a monkey picking fruit in a tree behind their house, the New Straits
Times said on
Wednesday.

The man, 70, is being held by police for causing death through recklessness
after he
fired a shotgun at what he thought was a monkey in a mangosteen tree on
Monday, the
newspaper said.

His wife, 68, had used a ladder to climb into the tree and was picking the
tropical fruit
when she was shot. She was pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital, the
paper said. The
couple lived in central Malaysia and had raised 13 children.




  • [monkeywire] Man Shoots Wife, Mistakes Her for Monkey, Josh Greenman, 09/22/2004

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