Sitapur stray dogs kill another child
LUCKNOW: Canine scare continued to haunt Sitapur district as a pack of feral dogs attacked and killed a 9-year-old boy in Talgaon area on Saturday afternoon, police said. After Saturday’s incident, dogs have killed six children in last five days. Though local residents claim that 17 children have been killed since November last year, the police put the toll at 12.
LUCKNOW: Canine scare continued to haunt Sitapur district as a pack of feral dogs attacked and killed a 9-year-old boy in Talgaon area on Saturday afternoon, police said.
Dogs have killed six children over the past five days.
Though local residents claim that 17 children have been killed since November last year, the police put the toll at 12.
UP minister in-charge of Sitapur Rita Bahuguna Joshi and animal husbandry minister SP Baghel visited Sitapur on Saturday and directed district magistrate Sheetal Verma and superintendent of police Anand Kulkarni to take steps to curb the menace.
Station house officer (SHO) of Talgaon Indrajeet Singh said a pack of six dogs attacked two boys and two elderly women who were grazing goats in Bhagautipur village at around 12.15 pm.
One of the boys, Kasim, succumbed to injuries.
Singh said Bhagautipur was nearly 20 kilometres from Mahsinghpur, Budhanpur, Chaubey- pur and Peerpur villages where four children – aged between 7 and 11 years – were attacked by dogs.
Geeta, 7, of Mahsinghpur and Virendra Lodh, 11, of Budhanpur died in Friday’s attacks.
Earlier on Tuesday, a pack of feral dogs had killed three children, aged 11 and 12, in separate incidents in Tikaria, Gurpulia and Kholia villages of Sitapur’s Khairabad tehsil.
Singh said it was the first such incident reported from Bhagautipur village. “An elderly woman Raeesa told the police that the dogs initially attacked the goats that they were grazing. They turned towards Kasim when he tried to save the goats. Raeesa alerted other villagers when the dogs did not flee but the boy could not be saved,” he added.
Singh said the dogs fled when Kasim’s father Jabbar and other villagers reached the spot. Kasim was rushed to the hospital but was pronounced dead by doctors, he added.
The DM and the SP visited the spot and said teams had been deployed to catch the dogs and villagers were being appealed to not to leave their children alone.