You Want to be Looking Over Your Shoulder on Monkey Island
A tourist from the United Kingdom was attacked by a pack of monkeys on Monkey Island in the Andaman Sea, near Phuket. Thankfully she survived.
News story courtesy of staff writers at NewsCore.
Tourist Savaged in Monkey Madness
A TOURIST has been savaged by a pack of monkeys while on a tour to cure her phobia of the animal.
Dee Darwell, 56, from Cambridgeshire in southern England, was bitten and grabbed by several macaques on a tour to Monkey Island in the Andaman Sea, near Phuket.
She collapsed with blood “pumping out of a deep, deep hole” in her arm as the monkeys were pulled off her by Thai fisherman.
“The monkey took my wrist and pounced on my right arm, sinking his teeth in and hung off it,” Ms Darwell said.
“He wouldn’t let go; he was locked on. I was absolutely petrified. I was shaking from head to foot and I froze,” she said.
“There was one man, a tourist, and when he saw the monkey bite me, he screamed and ran off… Then another, bigger monkey bit my arm, just next to the other one biting me, and all of a sudden I was surrounded by monkeys.”
Tour leader Yongyut Buasod said he was unable to control the monkeys if they decide to bite someone.
“We always warn the tourists,” he said.
“That day some people were teasing the monkeys. They don’t necessarily attack the specific person teasing them.”
Ms Darwell said her fear of primates stemmed from childhood as her father owned a chimpanzee she described as “positively evil.”
She warned tourists to Thailand to stay away from the monkeys.
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