A group of monkeys being transported from Tulane University escaped from an overturned truck following an accident in Mississippi, according to the Jasper County Sheriff's Department.

But in the days since the monkeys escaped, authorities have left questions about the crash largely unanswered. It's still unclear where the monkeys were headed and why some of them had to be killed, and the agencies involved have largely shut out attempts to get more information.

The animals were disease-free and posed no risk of infecting people, according to Tulane National Biomedical Research Center, which regularly provides rhesus monkeys to other research facilities.

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A group of research monkeys being transported from Tulane University escaped after the truck they were in was involved in a crash and overturned, deputies say. The truck was driving north of Heidelberg on Interstate 59 in Mississippi when it overturned, according to an Oct. 28 Facebook post from the Jasper County Sheriff’s Department.

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