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Indian dog pack kill 8-yr-old girl in Amroha village

Priyangi Agarwal
The Times of India
Tue, 03 Mar 2015 20:17 UTC
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Feral dogs in India
An eight-year-old girl was attacked and killed by a group of stray dogs in Poolpur village of Hasanpur tehsil on Sunday afternoon.

According to the girl's father, the attack occurred when she had stepped out to throw waste into the jungle. He said about eight-10 stray dogs had attacked her and she was lying in a pool of blood when he found her. He rushed her to the community health centre at Hasanpur, where doctors declared her brought dead.

The village residents blamed the local administration for not paying attention to the incidents of the stray dogs in villages here.

Amroha SDM Azad Bhagat Singh told TOI, "All executive officers of nagar palika have been ordered to appoint teams of workers to catch stray dogs from villages along with teams of veterinary doctors and compounders and sterilize them."
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Pack of feral canines attack pregnant woman in Bareilly, India

Priyangi Agarwal
The Times of India
Tue, 03 Mar 2015 20:01 UTC
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Feral dogs in India
With the district administration still clueless about how to handle the rising menace of stray dogs attacking people, the canines seem to have grown bolder as they are increasingly attacking adults.

In the latest incident, a pack of four dogs attacked a pregnant woman in Pareva village of Baheri on Sunday while she was working in the fields. Listening to her screams, villagers armed with bamboo sticks rushed to her aid. They beat the dogs with sticks and chased them away.

However, the woman, Lalita (30), lost her leg in the attack. Five children have been killed and at least 10 injured in stray dogs' attacks in the past 45 days.

Meanwhile, the campaign of district authorities of identifying and catching killer dogs could not be started on Monday due to incessant rain. "Our teams along with villagers had to track the dogs from Monday onwards but due to incessant rain since two days, we were unable to move in the area," said Rameshwarnath Tiwari, sub-divisional magistrate (SDM), Baheri.

Comment: See also: 12-yr-old boy dies in dog attack, 5th victim in 40 days in Bareilly, India

Eight-year-old boy attacked by pack of dogs in Baheri, India

Feral dogs kill 5-yr-old in Bareilly, India: Third fatality in a month of 10 attacks

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Woman stabs and kills her dog after surprise attack

Heidi Fenton
mlive.com
Tue, 03 Mar 2015 19:51 UTC
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A Hastings woman being bitten in the face by her dog managed to get away after she stabbed the animal with a pocket knife, The dog later died of its injuries, police said.

Hastings Police officers responded to the woman's home and found her sitting in a chair with a bloody towel on her face. She had several puncture wounds under her eyes and on her chin.

The woman told officers the shepherd mix she had owned for two years had been sitting on her lap while she was petting it when suddenly, for no apparent reason, the animal bit her in the face and would not let go, Hastings Police Chief Jeff Pratt said.

The woman managed to reach for a pocket knife and stabbed the dog three times in the mid-section before the animal released her face. A man in the home then was able to pick up the dog and secure it in a kennel while the woman called for help.

The dog was taken to a veterinarian, where it later died of the injuries.
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Pit bull terrier attacks owner in Buckeye Lake, Ohio

Elizabeth Faugl
abc6onyourside.com
Mon, 02 Mar 2015 19:36 UTC
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A family pet
Steven Heptinstall, 22, says even though he was attacked by his one-year-old male pit bull dog named Kane, he still loves the animal.

Heptinstall says Monday morning, Kane and his other male pit bull got into a fight at his Buckeye Lake home. He says as he was trying to pry Kane off the other animal, it turned on him leaving him with a broken finger, several scrapes and cuts, and eight stitches.

Heptinstall says it's the second time Kane has attacked his other pit bull dog in the last two weeks. Now he's planning on caging Kane alone for several days as recommended by local police, then will be giving the animal up to a Pit Bull rescue group.
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Bizarro Earth

Thousands forced to evacuate as Volcani Villarrica in southern Chile erupts

Antonio De la Jara and Rosalba O'Brien
Reuters
Tue, 03 Mar 2015 15:14 UTC
volcano villarrica
© Lautaro Salinas/AP Images
Volcano Villarrica in southern Chile erupted in the early hours of Tuesday, sending a plume of ash and lava high into the sky, and forcing the evacuation of nearby communities.

The volcano, located near the popular tourist resort of Pucon around 750 km (460 miles) south of the capital Santiago, is one of South America's most active. It last erupted in 2000.

A column of ash and rock particles shot up to 3 km (nearly 2 miles) into the sky overnight. Although the initial violent eruption was short-lived, intermittent clouds of steam and gas continue to issue from the volcano.

A major lava flow is not expected, said Luis Lara, head of national geological service Sernageomin on Tuesday morning, but that could change.

"After an eruptive pulse, which was pretty intense but very short at 3 am, the volcanic system remains unstable and it is possible that something similar could occur again in the next few hours," he said.

Some 3,385 people had been evacuated as a preventative measure, said Interior Minister Rodrigo Penailillo. There were no reports of any injuries.
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Family lied about dog attack on girl to protect their pet in Dayton, Ohio

Lot Tan
Journal-News
Tue, 03 Mar 2015 19:03 UTC
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© Lot TanA dog bit two-year-old Monroe Smith of Dayton in the face while she was building a snowman with her father.
Police say a family lied about which dog bit their two-year-old in order to protect their family pet.

Tyler Smith, of Dayton, said his daughter was building a snowman in the backyard of her grandparent's home in the 1300 block of Woodlawn Avenue when she was attacked and bitten on the face.

The dog "came charging, barking and growling" at Smith and his daughter, Monroe, he told this news outlet Monday.

"It got closer, and I grabbed (my daughter). It was growling so I took off running, and it jumped up and grabbed her face," Smith said.

Smith said he grabbed the dog by the neck and choked it until it let go. He drove his daughter to Atrium Medical Center, and she was transferred by ambulance to Dayton Children's Hospital, where she received more than 80 stitches to her face, according to Smith.
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USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 6.4 - 50km NW of Sikabaluan, Indonesia


US Geological Survey
Tue, 03 Mar 2015 19:04 UTC
Sikabaluan Quake_030315
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Event Time
  1. 2015-03-03 10:37:31 (UTC)
  2. Times in other timezones
Nearby Cities
  1. 50km (31mi) NW of Sikabaluan, Indonesia
  2. 158km (98mi) W of Pariaman, Indonesia
  3. 184km (114mi) W of Padang, Indonesia
  4. 191km (119mi) WSW of Bukittinggi, Indonesia
  5. 544km (338mi) SW of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Flooding in northern Spain as Ebro river breaks its banks

Richard Davies
floodlist.com
Mon, 02 Mar 2015 16:53 UTC
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© AnaFloods in Zaragoza, March 2015.
Levels of the Ebro River have been high for the last 3 to 4 days. By 28 February 2015, the overflowing river had flooded around 20,000 hectares in Aragon, north-eastern Spain.

Since then river levels have continued to rise and have now flooded areas along the river in Zaragoza, the capital of the region and Spain's fifth largest city.

Levels of the Ebro at Zaragoza are now thought to have peaked. Early on Monday 02 March 2015, the river reached 6.10 meters. Several hours later the level had dropped slightly to 6.06 metres. According to Confederación Hidrográfica del Ebro, as of 11:00 today 03 March 2015, Ebro levels at Zaragoza now stand at 5.28 metres.

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There's something in the air: City officials investigating mysterious odor in Louisville, Kentucky

Danielle Lama
wdrb.com
Sun, 01 Mar 2015 16:03 UTC
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Something stinks in Louisville
Something in the air doesn't smell right and city officials are trying to find out what it is.

Complaints started coming in early last week for a mysterious odor in Louisville, according to the Air Pollution Control District.

"I smell a musty smell, like something that's gotten wet. Like a, kind of like a wet dog," Joel Houghton told WDRB News.

"I noticed a smell and I pointed it out to her," Jason Culver said. "I have no clue what it is."

The Air Pollution Control District has been sending people out to investigate the smell of mold and mildew in the air.

"We're used to getting complaints," spokesman Thomas Nord said. "It's unusual that we get the same complaint in such a widespread area."
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Oil storage tank leak near Yakima River in Washington State poses threat to animals and crops

Eric M. Johnson
Reuters
Tue, 03 Mar 2015 00:23 UTC
yakima river oil tank leak
© Washington Department of EcologyInvestigators are still trying to figure out what caused a storage tank to leak in Yakima River on Sunday.
As much as 1,500 gallons of used motor oil leaked from an above-ground storage tank in Washington state into a creek that flows into the Yakima River, vital to the apple-growing state's agricultural hub, officials said on Monday.

The cause of the spill on Sunday from the tank at a former feed lot near Sunnyside, about 170 miles southeast of Seattle, was under investigation.

Department of Ecology spokeswoman Joye Redfield-Wilder said the oil posed a threat to otters, waterfowl and fish as well as orchards and other crops in the area.

"In a couple of weeks, the canals will all be full and (farmers) will be watering their crops and their orchards, so we want to get this cleaned up," Redfield-Wilder said.
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