Woman mistaken for monkey

Police say a man in Malaysia shot his neighbor as she picked chiku in his tree thinking it was a monkey. Police officers said Yahaya Othman says Zainab Mohamath Ali was gathering fruit on Thursday when her neighbour shot her. Mr Yahaya says the man came home and saw rustling in the tree and fired into it. 'Then there was screaming ... and only then did he know it was his neighbour.' He says Zainab is hospitalized with a wound to the abdomen but her condition was stable on Friday. He says police were investigating the man, a volunteer security corps member, for illegally discharging a firearm, which carries a maximum prison term of two years. -- AP