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Monkeys battle villagers over water

    NAIROBI

    Ten villagers were injured and eight monkeys killed in a two-hour fight over relief water delivery at Takaba trading centre, Mandera district, the ‘Daily Nation’ reported. It said the trouble started on Monday when three water tankers bringing water from neighbouring Elwak town to the drought-stricken area arrived at the trading centre. “The monkeys attacked the villagers who were drawing water sending them fleeing, as they [monkeys] took to quenching their thirst with the villagers’ water,” the paper said. It quoted a local official as saying the villagers at this point, regrouped and armed themselves with axes and machetes and “counter-attacked the monkeys who stood their ground and fought back”.

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