NAROWAL: Four youngsters suffered minor injuries on Thursday in their bid to capture a wild Indian monkey that crossed the international border and entered the residential area of Pakistan.

The wild monkey kept destroying the houses and jumping on the roofs at Khanna village in the suburbs of Shakargarh tehsil of Narowal district.

The monkey broke into the houses of locals and vandalised the goods.

Seeing the wild monkey in their houses, children and women started shouting. A large number of people gathered on the information of the monkey entering the village.

Some youngsters kept chasing the monkey by hitting it with stones andsticks. After five hours of continuous struggle, the locals caught the monkey when it hanged from a tree. Four youths suffered injuries in their bid to capture the monkey.

Locals Muhammad Riaz and Qayyum Wahla said they had made several phone calls to the wildlife department and told them about the issue but no official reached the spot. The locals said after capturing the wild monkey, it was kept in a bag and left in the forest near the international border.

They claimed that the office of Narowal wildlife department is locked during office hours and the employees are absent from duty. The citizens strongly protested against the wildlife department staff.

They demanded that the premier and the chief minister take notice of the issue.