Families are frightened to leave their homes due to a spate of monkey attacks on people in Western India.
Terrifying CCTV footage has captured several incidents in Supa Village, near Navsari, in Gujarat state.
Video shows a primate wiping out a biker after sneaking up behind his motorcycle and pouncing on him.
In another a monkey can be seen sprinting behind an unsuspecting woman before launching itself through the air and flooring her.
She appears to be knocked unconscious as she lands face first on the road.
So far the animals have targeted 19 people in the area and the incidents are becoming more frequent.
In the past one week at least one person has been attacked by monkeys every day.
The forest department has launched an investigation and are coming up with ways to capture the feral primates.
A milkman who was attacked seven times by the same monkey said: 'It was early in the morning, I was on my way to the milk collection co-operative when a monkey first attacked me.
'I was caught unaware by the intensity with which things unfolded. The monkey attacked me from behind and I fell on the ground, I had sustained some minor injuries due to the attack.
'I have been attacked seven times since then. Now, I am so scared that I feel like I am being followed by a monkey wherever I go.'
One of the range forest officer Vatsal Pandya said: 'We are clueless as to why the monkey is behaving in this manner, we have received many complaints and we are now making a strategy to capture the monkey.'
Residents have tried offering the animals food to stop the attacks, but it doesn't appear to be working.
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