On camera: pet chimpanzee who attacked woman shot dead in US

A police officer shot and killed an adult pet chimpanzee named Buck after it attacked a woman in Eastern Oregon in the US.

The chimpanzee, who had lived with the woman named Tamara Brogoitti for 17 years started attacking her daughter on Sunday.

Brogoitti called police said the animal had bitten her 50-year-old daughter in the torso, arms and legs and that her daughter was hiding in a basement bedroom.

When deputies arrived, the ape was roaming a fenced area outside the house. The Police said the animal needed to be ‘put down’ so they could get medical aid to the daughter and that they had Brogoitti's permission to shoot it.