A farmer in Nepal mistook his son for a monkey trying to steal his crops and shot the boy dead. The boy had been climbing a tree to chase away macaques that had become a nuisance to the family but his father Gupta Bahadur spotted the boy and opened fire, wrongly believing him to be one of theanimals. preliminary investigation shows that the father was unaware that his son had gone to the maize field to chase the monkeys.