According to BBC News, the deputy mayor of Delhi has died after failing to defend himself from a horde of wild monkeys: 
SS Bajwa suffered serious head injuries when he fell from the first-floor terrace of his home on Saturday morning trying to fight off the monkeys. The city has long struggled to counter its plague of monkeys, which invade government complexes and temples, snatch food and scare passers-by.
It’s not too hard to imagine an Australian equivalent for politicians being attacked by animals. For instance, the way the pork barrel is rolling around in the current election campaign, Kevin Rudd and John Howard are both at risk of being trampled in a stampede of pigs.

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