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Escaped monkey runs amok in Yokohama

YOKOHAMA -- A pet monkey escaped from its owner here and ran around the 
city, biting four people before it was subdued, police said.
Police received an emergency call at about 2:05 a.m. Thursday saying a 
monkey was on the loose in a section of Yokohama's Aoba-ku.

A 20-year-old man managed to catch the monkey and hand it over to local 
police but the monkey bit him in the process, leaving him with light 
injuries to his right hand. Police said three other residents also reported 
being bitten after the monkey escaped.

The simian, which belonged to a 38-year-old self-employed man in the ward, 
was reportedly a Japanese monkey measuring about 80 centimeters in height.

It had reportedly escaped by biting through a 10-meter-long rope with a 
diameter of about 6 millimeters. The owner was reportedly absent at the 
time the monkey escaped. (Mainichi Shimbun, March 14, 2003)