A police hunt has been launched for the owner of a private zoo whose monkey killed a six-week-old baby after breaking free.
The boy Vladimir (Vova) Verbitsky was attacked as he lay in a pram at his home in Crimea and the unnamed man who kept a menagerie of exotic animals is now believed to have fled to Ukraine.
The blue macaque was tethered in the yard of the wealthy zoo owner's house in Kacha, a suburb of Sevastopol.
Police say the monkey gnawed through the rope and jumped a fence at the Verbitsky family home, leaping into Vova's pram and biting his face.
'The baby's head was almost torn to pieces and the child was thrown out of his pram," said one source.
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