KARUNA SHINSHO, CNN ANCHOR: In India, thousands of police are patrolling the streets of New Delhi. Panic is sweeping the Indian capital after residents reported being attacked by an ape-like creature. Satinder Bindra has more.</s>SATINDER BINDRA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Fear is taking over the streets of India's capital New Delhi. Police are receiving dozens of complaints of attacks and assaults. Injured residents say they've been slashed, clawed and bruised by a powerful and mysterious creature they call monkey man. UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator) I don't know what to think, because he was like a monkey on top, and a man from the bottom.</s>BINDRA: Three-thousand policemen are turning the city upside down for the mysterious creature who some newspapers conjecture may look like this, or perhaps even like this. In this neighborhood police are completely swamped with complaints. They've been searching for three days, but the elusive monkey man continues to give them the slip. Residents are frequently attacked and bitten by the city's booming monkey population So according to the police, it's possible that these latest attacks may be the work of an angry monkey.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): There's no clue yet whether it is a man or a black monkey.</s>BINDRA: Until police unravel the mystery of the monkey man, newspapers are having a field day with the story. But the media's interest is further fueling fears.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): Everyone's afraid. There is fear. We don't know if he will come again. No one has slept for the past two days.</s>BINDRA: To escape the heat in small cramped homes, many residents here sleep on roofs. Now, with a mysterious monkey-like figure on the loose, residents say they prefer to sleep indoors. As one resident put it, he'd rather lose some sleep than his life. Satinder Bindra, CNN, New Delhi.
Police in New Delhi Scouring City for Reported Ape-Like Creature