Japanese city hunts for wild monkey following spate of attacks

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Japanese city hunts for wild monkey following spate of attacks
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The hunt for a wild monkey in Japan continues as police warn residents to keep their windows closed. 9News

, breaking into homes to bite and claw residents amid an ongoing hunt for the animal, officials said.

The youngest victim is a 10-month-old girl, whose leg was scratched by the monkey after it entered through a screen door on the first floor of her house.FILE - Japanese macaques, also known as snow monkeys, inhabit the area but it's not clear what species of monkey is involved. It attacked two more people on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning: a woman in her 60s and a woman in her 80s, both of whom were outside at the time.

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