Furuviksparken announces in a press release that they have succeeded in getting the monkeys into a safe enclosure, which means that there is no longer any risk that they will be able to get out of the chimpanzee house.
With this, the park also confirms that a fourth monkey, the chimpanzee Manda, is dead.
Selma injured
"It is with great sadness that we can now confirm that she is deceased," writes Furuviksparken in the press release.
Three monkeys are in the monkey house and one of them, the chimpanzee Selma, is seriously injured.
"Full focus will be on taking care of the chimpanzees, evaluating their well-being and giving them all the care they need.
We will especially focus on Selma's injuries and well-being," the press release reads.
The chimpanzees Maria-Magdalena and Tjobbe must be physically unharmed.
Circumstances unclear
It was last Wednesday that the monkeys escaped from their enclosure.
It is unclear how the monkeys got out, but tracks in the snow show, according to the park's CEO Sandra Wilke, that one or more chimpanzees first got out of the enclosure and then further into the park through a door to the monkey house, writes TT.
"More animals live outside the chimpanzee house, for example cotton-headed tamarins and reptiles.
We have now managed to secure their area so that our employees can get in and take care of them and we are now awaiting a status report from the veterinarians regarding the well-being of these animals," the zoo wrote earlier on Saturday.
The text is updated.