The Japanese police were forced to use anesthetic gun to deal with the situation of snow -attacking monkeys causing injury to people in Yamaguchi.

Yamaguchi city of the same name recently recorded 42 cases of people injured by snow monkeys, including children and the elderly.

Snow monkeys live popular in many parts of Japan, but such monkey incidents are considered abnormalities.

The monkeys scratched the victim's limbs, even biting the neck or abdomen.

Snow monkeys are bathing hot springs in the town of Yamanouchi, Nagano province, Japan, December 10, 2012.

Yamaguchi police have increased patrol to find the culprit since the first attack was reported in early July, but the trapping and trapping efforts could not stop the monkeys.

It is not clear whether the Yamaguchi city police have caught a monkey attacking people with anesthesia.

Once a vulnerable species, the number of Japanese snow monkeys has increased recently.

9am daily, the snow monkeys climbed down from the top of the mountain to play, exchange, bathe and soak in warm water.