Stray dogs maul 7-year-old boy to death in Sirmaur district

Shimla, January 20

In a horrifying incident, a seven-year-old boy was brutally attacked and mauled to death by half-a-dozen stray dogs in Sirmaur district, the police said on Saturday.

Vikki, the son of a migrant labourer from Uttar Pradesh, was attacked by the dogs while he was returning home from a nearby market in Amarkot village under Paonta sub-division, they said.

Hearing his cries, villagers rushed to his rescue and three of them also got injured by the aggressive dogs.

The boy suffered multiple injuries on his head, throat, neck and stomach, they said, adding that he succumbed to his injuries on the way to hospital.

A case had been registered, Paonta Sahib DSP Pramod Chauhan said.

A sum of Rs 20,000 had been given to the bereaved family, Paonta Sahib SDM HS Rana said.

According to Amarkot village head Rakesh Mehraloo, the administration was informed many a time in the recent past about the stray dogs attacking people, but it turned deaf ear to their complaints.

The incident had frightened the villagers, who were now not sending their wards to schools, he said. PTI