Guntur: A six-year-old girl was killed by a pack of 10 stray dogs in Kakumanu village of Guntur district on Wednesday. The dogs attacked Sk Kousar while she was on her way to the fields to meet her parents.
Following the incident, angry villagers blocked the Guntur-Kakumanu-Bapatla Road, seeking justice.
Kousar's parents Mahbub Subhani and Adambi are agriculture workers and they had gone to the maize fields on the village outskirts early on Wednesday morning. Kousar was on her way to visit her parents when the pack of dogs attacked her.
Hearing her screams, farmers and field workers rushed to her rescue and dispersed the dogs with clubs. However she had received grievous injuries as the dogs had pulled out her intestines.
The girl was immediately shifted to the Kakumanu primary health centre but as her condition deteriorated, the doctors suggested shifting her to the Bapatla area government hospital. Kousar, however, died while she was being shifted to the bigger hospital.
Villagers squatted on the Guntur-Kakumanu-Bapatla Road, demanding action against officials who had failed to curb the stray dog menace.
They said two months ago, another girl, Bala Saraswathi, had been injured by strays and they had asked officials several times to get rid of the dogs. However, local panchayat officials had only sterilised the dogs and released them.
The villagers complained that Guntur zilla parishad chairperson Sk Janimun had been elected as ZPTC from Kakumanu while minister for social welfare R. Kishore Babu was elected from Prattipadu.
However, neither of them had done anything to remove the menace.
Police and revenue officials reached the spot and asked the protesting villagers to disperse, but in vain.
