Pun, a famed hunter in his locality, rarely missed his target.[break]
“I did not realize that my wife was coming through the maize filed. I heard a rustle in the field and thought it might be a monkey destroying the crops,” Police inspector of the District Police Office Shiva Raj Budhathoki quoted Pun as saying in his statement. “Monkeys used to create nuisance destroying the crops, so I fired to chase the monkey away but shot my own wife," rued Pun.
The police arrested Pun with the gun that he used in shooting his wife.
In a similar incident last month, Gupta Bahadur Pulami, 55, of Siddhara VDC-8 in Arghakhanchi district, had shot dead his 12-year-old son, Chitra Bahadur, after mistaking him for a monkey.
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