Towns battle monkey menace after 60 attacks

Two Japanese towns have declared war on a band of marauding monkeys that have attacked more than 60 people in the forested foothills of Mount Fuji, local officials say.

Alarmed by an unusual spate of biting and scratching attacks, officials in Mishima and Susono have deployed hundreds of volunteers, city staff, police, rescue workers and animal researchers to ward off and catch the animals.