Police in Nepal arrested a man who shot dead his tree-climbing, 12-year-old son, thinking he saw a monkey intending to go after his crops.
Gupta Bahadur Pulami, 55, of Arghakhanchi fired upon his son, Chitra Bahadur, while he was sitting in a tree trying to chase away monkeys Friday. Pulami thought his son was a monkey shaking the trees and preparing to descend on his corn crops, The Himalayan Times reported.
“When the father saw some movement in the trees he fired in that direction thinking that it was [a] monkey,” police official Tika Bahadur Gurung told news Web site Nagariknews.com.
“I realized my mistake only when my son fell down and got stuck in one of the tree‘s branches,” Pulami told police after his arrest.
The fourth-grader was Pulami’s only son with his second wife who died four years ago, The Hindustan Times reported. He has three sons and three daughters from his first marriage. (UPI)