HEIDELBERG, Miss. (WLBT) - One monkey is still missing after a truck carrying the animals from the Tulane National Biomedical Research Center in New Orleans overturned on Interstate 59 in Heidelberg, Mississippi last week.

In all, 21 monkeys were on the truck.

Five were killed at the scene, and three escaped. Thirteen remained in the truck and were taken to their original destination, the Associated Press reports.

One of the escaped monkeys was shot and killed by a woman in Jasper County, who said the monkey was seen running in her yard Sunday morning.

The monkeys were previously reported to be carrying multiple diseases.

Both Tulane University and PreLabs, LLC , a biomedical research organization that has taken ownership of the Rhesus monkeys, say the monkeys were not infected

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