Monkeys attack lab assistant in India and steal coronavirus blood samples

By Anthony Leonardi

Published May 29, 2020 1:25pm ET

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Monkeys attack lab assistant in India and steal coronavirus blood samples — A rhesus macaque monkey pauses while drinking from a water trough on Cayo Santiago, known as Monkey Island off the eastern coast of Puerto Rico, Tuesday, July 29, 2008. | (Brennan Linsley/AP)

A gang of monkeys attacked an Indian lab assistant and fled the scene with some coronavirus blood samples.

Authorities said on Friday that several monkeys accosted a laboratory technician who was walking around a state-run medical college in India and took with them blood samples from coronavirus patients. Officials are uncertain if any of the samples have spilled.

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