{"id":111309,"date":"2018-01-27T11:06:27","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T05:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=111309"},"modified":"2018-01-27T11:06:27","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T05:36:27","slug":"chennai-two-die-due-marauding-monkeys-tirutani-temple-new-indian-express","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=111309","title":{"rendered":"Chennai: Two die due to marauding monkeys at Tirutani temple | The New Indian Express"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: Two persons died in separate monkey-related incidents at Tiruttani in the last couple of days.On Thursday, G Nalini (45) of Srinivasapuram, Bengaluru, died after she was chased by a monkey, that tried to snatch her bag. She was walking on North Car Street near the Lord Muruga temple when the incident occurred, the police said.<\/p>\n<p>She and her sister were part of a 48-member group which was on a pilgrimage. A police official said \u201cNalini was purchasing offerings for the deity when monkeys attacked her and\u00a0 tried to snatch a bag from her. When she ran to save herself, she fell down and sustained a head injury. She was rushed to the government hospital at Tiruttani where she was declared \u2018dead on arrival\u2019, the official said.<\/p>\n<p>In the other incident, Kathirvelan (65), a heart-patient, died on Friday after monkeys snatched the pooja items from him in the temple premises. \u201cHe fell down, suffered a heart attack along with a head injury\u201d. He was declared \u2018dead on arrival\u2019 by doctors at the government hospital. The official said that this was perhaps the first incident of a person dying in a monkey-related incident in the temple premises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: Two persons died in separate monkey-related incidents at Tiruttani in the last couple of days.On Thursday, G Nalini (45) of Srinivasapuram, Bengaluru, died after she was chased by a monkey, that tried to snatch her bag. She was walking on North Car Street near the Lord Muruga temple when the incident occurred, the police [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[2473,2474,2475],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}