Hyderabad: Dog bites 30, beaten to death by locals

Hyderabad: Thirty people were injured with five suffering deep wounds when a dog went on a biting spree at Ameerpet Dharam Karan Road on Tuesday afternoon. As the injured started calling out for help, locals came out with sticks and stones and beat the dog to death.

Students emerged from the Sister Nivedita High School on Dharam Karan Road at around 3.30 pm when the dog attacked them. He came running at a mad speed and bit students as well as passing pedestrians. There was chaos as the dog ran among the children and parents who had come to escort them home.

Dharam Karan Road is busy as it is crowded with shops, hawkers and the adjacent Ameerpet metro station. There was a hue and cry when the dog went on a biting spree.

Parents were screaming and collecting small children to protect them from being bitten.

The school administration was caught unawares.

Passersby, school administration and shopkeepers rushed those who were bitten to Chella Nursing Home, Wellness Hospital

and urban primary healthcare centre at Ameerpet.

Class VI and IX students suffered shoulder bites, and a college student was bitten near the chest. They said the dog jumped and bit them. The dog was swift and moved in a flash. Eighteen people were treated at Chella hospital, of whom four were schoolgoers, said doctors. They were given an anti-rabies shot, with four more to come.

Locals took a bit of time to locate the dog before beating him to death.

Locals have long complained of a dog menace, and accuse the veterinary department of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation of negligence.