After a woman was attacked by a baboon in an Ontario city, the city is trying to change its animal bylaw.

The controversy began when Mark, a baboon, escaped last month from a home in Letchford, Ontario, 128 kilometers northeast of Sudbury.

Mark ran from one side of the highway to the other and attacked and bit a woman in her 40s who was on her way to the doctor's office in the parking lot, Latchford Mayor Sharon Gedori East said. The woman was trying to get into her car, but the baboon bit her leg.

The woman, who was very scared, had to go through a 14-day treatment with antibiotics and things like that because it was not clear what diseases and problems the baboon had.

The mayor said that he does not know why the owners of this baboon are keeping this animal and it is not clear what happened to his hand. According to him, the owners of the baboon brought it to this city more than a decade ago.

He added, the problem is that about ten years ago, the municipality did not have a regulation to prohibit the keeping of exotic animals.

This incident has caused the city council to write a new regulation.

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