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Dog bites 20 people in Hyderabad

 

NDTV Correspondent

Tuesday, April 17, 2007 (Hyderabad)

In yet another incident in Hyderabad, a stray dog bit nearly 20

people, including 12 children, belonging to a slum locality in

Trimulgherry area on Tuesday.

 

Four victims have reportedly suffered severe injuries.

 

In the panic following the incident, the locals reportedly beat the

dog to death.

 

Just last week, after students of a Women's College in Koti were

bitten by stray dogs, the AP Human Rights Commission had intervened.

 

The commission had said that the municipal authorities were not doing

enough to control the dog menace on the city's roads and had opined

that merely vaccinating and sterilizing stray dogs is not going to

solve the problem.

 

Though animal rights activists expressed outrage at this suggestion,

they have themselves said that dogs prone to violence can be put to sleep.