UP: Dogs maul minor girl to death, villagers look on

PILIBHIT: A pack of stray dogs attacked a 13-year-old girl and mauled her to death while she was heading home in Pilibhit’s Bagwa village on Tuesday even as locals looked on helplessly.
Sources said that the dogs attacked Neha Maurya, a class IV student, after spotting her all alone near the family’s agricultural field. On seeing the ferocious dogs, even locals who rushed to help couldn’t do much to save the girl, they added.She succumbed to injuries on the spot.
On information, district magistrate Pulkit Khare and superintendent of police Jai Prakash Yadav rushed to the village to take stock of the situation. Forest range officer Satyendra Chaudhary, deputed to examine the case, said that the dogs were surviving on cattle remains for long and must have been starving due to which they attacked the girl.

Later, the DM ordered the forest authorities and chief veterinary officer Dr Akhilesh Kumar Garg to catch the dogs and release them away from human settlements. He also sought an explanation from the gram pradhan, village development officer, panchayat secretary and revenue officials concerned about negligence in curbing stray menace on time.
Khare said that a decision on whether to sterilize the animals would be taken after consultation with experts.
Meanwhile, the CVO said that they would constitute a committee to tackle the menace after receiving a report from the area veterinary officer.
Earlier, stray dogs had killed a 10-year-old boy in the district in August. The boy, Ajiz Raza, was on his way home from their field in Rasiyakhanpur village when the dogs attacked him.