One-month-old baby boy has died in Mwamgongo village in Kigoma, near the Gombe Nation Park in western Tanzania after being snatched from his mother by a monkey which had gone into their house, authorities say

A one-month-old baby boy has died in Tanzania after being snatched from his mother by a monkey which had gone into their house, authorities say. 

The child was being breastfed when a troop of monkeys invaded their home in Mwamgongo village in Kigoma, near the Gombe Nation Park in western Tanzania.

It is not clear what species of monkey attacked the mother.

Kigoma Regional Commander James Manyama said the child died after villagers tried to use force to rescue the him.