Girl killed by dogs
In a tragic incident, a 10-year-old girl died on the spot after stray dogs attack her.

According to the police, the incident happened in Srikakulam on Thursday. The girl D. Spandana, a Class V student was walking to the field to give tea to her father D. Bodesh. But stray dogs attacked her. The dogs bit the girl with such severity that a nerve on her neck was damaged.

Police said "the dogs attacked the girl outside the village. The scene indicated that Spandana tried to resist before collapsing from the attack. No one else was at the spot at the time of the incident. Locals rushed her to the hospital, where the doctors declared her dead."


TD legislator and government Whip Kuna Ravikumar and few others visited the family members of Spandana to console them.

Expressing anguish over the incident, locals of Dallipeta said that "mostly children and the elderly have been the victims of the stray dogs attacks. Locals also alleged that despite repeated requests, the panchayat officials have remained inactive over the matter and have been citing silly excuses for not sterilising the dogs."

Sources said that "this was the second instance of an attack by stray dogs in the region. Four days ago, five-year-old Y. Yeshwanth Kumar of Mogalipadu in Palasa municipality was attacked by a dog while playing in front of his house. He was seriously injured and had to be taken to Srikakulam hospital after first aid at a local clinic."

Many incidents have been reported but no strict action have been taken to stop stray dog attacks.The threats from stray dogs are upsetting occupants of Vizag city as well as locals in Vizianagaram and Srikakulam districts. Residents say that authorities of the neighbourhood villages have been disregarding the risk in their regions for some time now.

Sources said that " normally, the Village Revenue Officers take a census of stray dog population and monitor the process of sterilisation to control the canine population. However, practically all VROs and staff of the panchayat have been ignoring the issue in rural areas."

Vizag, the biggest city in the state, has been pondering with stray dogs threat accounted for around the year because of the apathy of GVMC.

"How can we expect the panchayat officials to check the menace in rural areas?" asked N. Tilak Kumar, a resident of MVP Colony in Vizag.