Dogs maul one-month-old baby to death in UP's Saharanpur

A one-month-old baby was mauled to death after stray dogs snatched the infant from its home in UP's Saharanpur area. This is the third incident that took place in the last 10 days in the Saharanpur.

Saharanpur (UP):In a shocking incident, a one-month-old baby was mauled to death by a pack of stray dogs in Behat area of Saharanpur on Thursday.

On June 6, a six-year-old girl was mauled by dogs when she ventured into the fields with her grandfather. Two days later, she succumbed to injuries.

Similarly, in May, a stray dog bit four persons at Chittora village of Muzaffarnagar after which irate villages beat the canine to death. Two days before that, a pack of dogs mauled to death an elderly woman in Bijnor.

In April last year, stray dogs had killed over a dozen children in Sitapur district. People have stopped their children from going to school and stepping out of the houses.

Meanwhile, villagers of the Behat area has started a protest against the municipality demanding a solution to the growing number of stray dogs in rural areas.

However, officials said that a special team was called in form Mathura to round up the dogs.

Animal experts have suggested sterilization as a means to curb stray dog menace. The task lies with civic bodies, who apparently are unable to carry out sterilization.
From time to time, experts have appealed to residents not to feed the strays and if they do so, not to stop suddenly. Loss of food often makes dogs aggressive.