Hyderabad: four-year-old child succumbs to injuries, was attacked by street dogs
On hearing the boy’s screams, his older sister alerted the father who tried to rescue his child, but the doctors declared him dead upon reaching the hospital.
In a gut-wrenching incident in Hyderabad, a four-year-old child succumbed to grievous injuries after he was attacked by a pack of street dogs.
The incident took place at Amberpet, where the boy, and his six-year-old sister, had visited a car service centre where his father, K Gangadhar, worked as security personnel.
The incident captured on CCTV has taken the internet by storm. In the viral CCTV visuals, the boy can be seen being scratched and dragged by the canines. Despite the many efforts of the boy to escape, the dogs overpowered him, bite him and dragged him around.
The boy was carrying a bag of food that possibly attracted the dogs, said a Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) official.
After the incident, dog catchers of GHMC caught 33 dogs from the vicinity. The GHMC official added, “Of these 33 dogs, 25 were already sterilised. In Greater Hyderabad, we have sterilised over 71 per cent of dogs as of this date and it is a continuous process. There is a dog-catching unit in each of the 31 circles and about 200-odd dogs are caught every day. They are sterilised at any of the five animal care centres and released at the same place after post-operative care. Such sterilised dogs are docile.”
On hearing the boy’s screams, his older sister alerted the father who tried to rescue his child, but the doctors declared him dead upon reaching the hospital.
Municipal Administration Minister K T Rama Rao expressed his heartfelt condolences to the deceased’s family. Rama Rao said, “Despite setting up animal care centres to take care of stray dogs in a humane way such incidents happen and are very unfortunate. We will do everything we can to ensure that such incidents do not recur.”
