Stray dogs are a menace for a lot of localities where people complain that they make their movement difficult. In a recent case in Andhra Pradesh, a four-year-old boy was mauled to death by a pack of stray dogs near Rajiv Gruha Kalpa apartments at Adavitakkellapadu in Guntur district on Thursday.
According to reports, around six dogs attacked Dupati Prem Kumar, when he went out to buy a packet of chips at a nearby shop.
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They gnawed his neck, hands and head. Kumar, who was soaked in blood, was taken to Guntur Government Hospital but succumbed to injuries soon after. Kumar's parents, Malliswari and Yesubabu, are daily-wage workers and were not at home when the incident took place.
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Guntur Municipal Corporation commissioner C Anuradha said measures have been taken to tackle the dog me nace in the city. "We have vac cinated 2,367 stray dogs so far. We have sterilised them according to court orders and left them at the same place where we picked them," she said.