A seven-year-old boy who was fatally mauled by his family's pet monkey in southern Thailand has become the focus of growing questions over whether warning signs about the animal's behaviour were overlooked.
Ekkarat Srichan died after suffering catastrophic injuries when a four-year-old macaque named Choke attacked him outside his home in Nakhon Si Thammarat province on Saturday, 6 June. Doctors later determined that one of the monkey's bites punctured the child's lung, leaving him with injuries he could not survive.
