Dogs maul boy

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Dogs maul boy

[ 1 Mar, 2007 2316hrs ISTTIMES NEWS NETWORK ]

 

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS/Cities/BANGALORE/Dogs_maul_boy/articlesh\

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BANGALORE: Even before the city could recover from the brutal killing

of eightyear-old Sridevi by stray dogs in Chandra Layout, a little boy

was mauled by 15 dogs in BEML township on Wednesday.

 

Four-and-half-year-old Manjunath was playing hide-and-seek with his

friends when the dogs attacked him, caught him in their jaws and

dragged him across the open ground.

 

Within seconds, the murderous pack had almost severed his neck. The

last words of this little boy were " neeru neeru (water water) " .

 

Neighbours tried in vain to save him. In the next nine hours,

Manjunath was pronounced dead after a team of surgeons battled and

failed to save his life.

 

The surgeons tried to salvage what was left of the child's mutilated

neck - windpipe, foodpipe and arteries - but failed.

 

He was brought to paediatric casualty of Manipal Hospital at about 8

pm and he had numerous lacerated injuries on the face, upper and lower

limbs along with a massive tear in the wind pipe, which was split into

two.

 

" This was causing him suffocation and profuse bleeding, " said Dr

Joseph Xavier, a cardio thoracic surgeon, who led the surgery.

 

A team of nine specialists including ENT, cardiac, vascular, neuro and

plastic surgeons were rushed to handle the case. The operation started

at 11 pm and continued till 3 am.

 

Since the child had lost a lot of blood, the doctors tried to control

the bleeding by keeping him at a low temperature to stop the

circulation for the time; an operation to control the bleeding was

undertaken.

 

Also life support system to maintain his low blood pressure and the

failing heart was provided. Recalling what happened minutes earlier,

the child's father Maheshwara M C, an instructor at the welding

training centre, BEML, said: " My son was calling me just a few minutes

earlier to play with him,which I normally do. I told him I will have a

bath first and then join him. But by the time I could have a bath some

neighbours were screaming that dogs have bitten Manju. I rushed down

from the first floor of our house. Manju was meanwhile taken to the

nearby BEML hospital. The child was then rushed to Manipal Hospital

and doctors emerged out of the operation theatre at about 3 am to tell

us that the child is dead. " Manjunath's mother Annapurna is too

shattered to speak. The incident has shaken the neighbourhood. Says a

neighbour Lokesh N: " Manju was calling out to my daughter Spoorti who

was one of his best friends to play with him. My daughter was asleep,

otherwise it could have been my daughter. "