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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.