Guards armed with catapults will be deployed at the Taj Mahal to ward off rabid monkeys as India gears up to put on a show for President Trump.

The US president will make a detour during his two-day trip to visit India’s biggest tourist attraction. Alongside the usual security arrangements for visiting heads of state, patrols are being put in place to protect the American entourage from aggressive monkeys living at the 17th-century mausoleum.

Some 700 rhesus macaques live among the sprawling ruins and gardens of the Taj complex, and they present a growing menace to millions of tourists who visit the site in Agra each year. Gangs of monkeys seeking food regularly attack visitors. A newborn baby was seized and killed in the area