Horror as ‘intelligent’ chimpanzee kills human baby after snatching it off mum

A baby of eight months has been ripped from her mother and killed by a chimpanzee famed for using tools.

The horrific tragedy in Guinea, West Africa, has sparked anger after locals have suffered a spate of unprovoked attacks in recent months.

Distraught mother Seny Zogba was working in a vegetable field in the town of Bossou with her young daughter on her back when a chimpanzee – thought to be a male called Jeje – struck.

It sank its teeth into Ms Zogba, tore her young daughter, Yoh Helene, off her back and ran off with the baby into a forest nearby.

The little girl’s body was found nearly two miles from the Nimba Mountains Nature Reserve – which the chimpanzees are not supposed to leave.

Locals feared the animal may have used primitive tools, that it often uses to cut up food, to inflict injuries on Yoh Helene.

An angry mob directed its fury over the death at the scientists who continue to observe the dangerous creatures, as attacks on innocent civilians grow.

The group even brought the body of the little girl with them to the Bossou Environmental Research Institute to show what had happened.

There have been six chimpanzee attacks on humans in the area this year.

Many believe this is because of a dwindling food supply for the animals, forcing them to leave the protected area more frequently.

But chief researcher at the institute Gen Yamakoshi told The Times the gruesome killing was because the chimps “no longer fear humans”.