A BUNGLING team of monkey hunters accidentally shot a woman with a tranquilliser dart and knocked her out amid a mass crackdown on crazed ape gangs.
She and several others had spotted the primate running amok in Fuji, Japan, on Monday and reported it to authorities.
One monkey hunting specialist and three municipal employees were then sent to subdue the macaque near Fujikawa Station.
The fumbling foursome were armed with tranquilliser rifles to take the monkey out, SoraNews24 reported.
As they began their search for the rogue animal, they spoke with the woman to help try and determine its current whereabouts.
But the Good Samaritan found herself in the firing line when one of the monkey hunters accidentally shot her in the arm with a tranquilliser dart.
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City officials said the bloke's fingers clumsily slipped and pulled the trigger while he taped the barrel of the rifle to prevent air leakage.
It sent the 6inch dart – packed with enough sedative to knock out a 33lb monkey – flying into the woman's left arm.
She fell unconscious almost immediately before the ham-fisted monkey hunters rushed her to hospital.
The woman woke up an hour later, but it took another 60 minutes for her to become coherent enough to converse.
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She suffered no further injuries and was released later that day while the menacing monkey remains on the loose.
Authorities in Fuji apologised for the blunder and promised a full investigation into the incident.
Officials have also instructed a policy review to be carried out to stop accidental discharges from occurring.
It comes amid a bizarre spate of vicious monkey attacks across Japan over the last few weeks.
Over 60 people have been pounced on by the predatory primates, forcing the government to launch a crackdown to stop the chaos.
One evil macaque injured 18 people during a ten-day rampage in early July in the city of Yamaguchi.
It even horrifically managed to slide open a fly screen before clawing at a tiny baby, while scratching and biting its other victims.
Shocking images show the severe damage the "unstoppable" crazed creatures inflicted during their reign of terror in the area.
But the leader of the pack of monkeys terrorising the town was caught and killed by authorities a few weeks later.
Authorities had decided to turn tranquilizer guns after traps they set failed to catch any of the culprits.
Japanese macaques are common across large parts of the country, but such assaults are usually rare.
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A city official from the agricultural department told AFP: "All of Yamaguchi city is surrounded by mountains and it’s not rare to see monkeys.
"But it’s rare to see this many attacks in a short period of time."
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