A WOMAN has bled to death after being attacked by monkeys days after raging apes snatched and killed a baby in the same city, according to reports.

Bhuran Devi, 59, was bitten to death after wandering into a field near her home in another killer ape attack the same week a 12-day-old tot that was fatally ambushed.

Bhuran had gone into the field to urinate when she was set upon by monkeys who allegedly attacked her so ferociously that she collapsed and was only spared after becoming motionless.

She was discovered by relatives who rushed her to a nearby medical clinic but she succumbed to her injuries shortly afterwards.

The horror attack comes mere days after a 12-day-old baby was bitten to death by another monkey, on the outskirts of Agra, India.

Indian activists are now calling for the protected species to be moved to a sanctuary and funds to be raised to pay for sterilisation and victim compensation.

Baby Arush was rushed to hospital but sadly declared dead on arrival after he was fatally attacked on Monday.

The baby's father Yogesh, who drives an auto rickshaw, told local media: "The front door was left open and my wife was breastfeeding the baby when a monkey suddenly ran into the house."

Yogesh said that the monkey grabbed the infant by his neck and ran off before his mum Neha could do anything.

The couple, who have been married for two years, chased the animal and found their first-born child on a neighbour’s roof.

Little Arush was bleeding profusely and had no pulse, according to the father.

Reports said that the same monkey attacked a sleeping 14-year-old girl in the neighbourhood about 15 minutes before running off with Arush.

Local police confirmed that the infant’s body has been sent for an autopsy and will be given back to the family for burial.

The baby received fatal wounds to his head and neck, according to sub-inspector Atbir Singh.

Singh added that another baby was attacked by a monkey in the same area two months ago but fortunately survived and is recovering in hospital.

Ajay Kaushal, officer in charge of the Sikandra police station, said: "A group of monkeys entered the victim's house and one of the monkeys snatched the baby from his mother who was breastfeeding him, and ran away with the baby.

"The monkey bit the infant's head and left the baby when people chased it with sticks and threw stones at it."

The tragedy took place in Runkata town close to India's most famous monument, the Taj Mahal.

Local environmental activist Shravan Kumar Singh said monkeys were becoming increasingly aggressive as they had been displaced from natural habitats, destroyed by the expanding city.

Singh said: "Monkeys are everywhere in Agra. They are in all the five railway stations in the city, in hospitals, hotels and roads.

"They come in search of food, but they snatch and attack as well."

In May, a group of monkeys attacked two foreign tourists at the Taj Mahal.

A group of local organisations and individuals are campaigning for authorities to compensate victims of monkey attacks and for the sterilisation of monkeys and their exclusion from legislation protecting wildlife, Singh said.

It comes after a 16-day old baby was grabbed from his mother and found dead at the bottom of a well in April.

The simian monkey took the sleeping infant at around 6am while the mother was doing chores outside sparking a frantic search involving 2,000 locals in the village of Talabasta in eastern India.

In August, footage showed a monkey going on a rampage in Karnataka, India, as it tried to kidnap a baby boy.