Chimp attack kills cabbie and injures tourists

Police are hunting 27 chimpanzees that escaped from a Sierra Leone preserve and attacked the occupants of a taxi, killing the driver.

Four other people among the group of local and American sightseers were mauled by the animals and needed hospital treatment, including a Sierra Leonean man whose hand was later amputated.

The US embassy warned Americans against visiting the Tacugama sanctuary, from where the chimps escaped.

A local police official said it was unclear why the chimps attacked; such attacks are unusual but not unprecedented.

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