Sitapur: Seven-year-old, three others attacked by dogs

“Hours after the incident in Laharpur, 7-year-old Susheel Gaur was attacked by a pack of five dogs in Har Raipur village of Talgaon police station area when he was out in the field with his father Suresh Gaur and other family members. The boy was attacked when he was cleaning a pumping set in his field, around 700 mts from his house. One of the dogs had the boy’s neck in its jaws when the father and his uncle ran to save him. The dogs then ran away,” said Talgaon police station SHO Yogesh Shah.

Laharpur circle officer (CO) Akhand Paratap Singh, who reached the Har Raipur after the incident, said that as per the statements given by villagers, one of the feral dogs, still in the area, had been wounded. “In the first incident, there were just two dogs, of which one was killed. In the second incident, there were five dogs, but only one of them, reported to be stronger than the others, attacked. Just one of these violent dogs remain in the area. It has a wounded leg. It is brown in colour, has leopard-like dots on its body and black rings near the neck,” the CO said.

District’s Chief Veterinary Officer Ravindra Prasad Yadav said the body of the dog had been sent for post-mortem. The officer added that so far, close to 50 dogs have been sent to the Kanha Upwan animal shelter in Lucknow and around half a dozen have been sterilised at a temporary Animal Birth Control clinic in the district.