Representative image showing a stray dog.
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Guntu: A four-year-old boy has died after being mauled by a stray dog at Swarna Bharathi Nagar here, a police official said on Monday.
The incident occurred on Sunday evening when the boy stepped out to play near his house. A stray dog attacked him and bit him on the neck, severely injuring his jugular vein, said the official.
"These kinds of incidents are not common in this area and the locals are generally cynophile. As a result, municipal officials are facing difficulties in relocating or sterilising stray dogs,” a police official told PTI.
After the dog attacked the boy, children around there stoned the creature and chased it away. The boy was immediately rushed to the hospital, where doctors declared him brought dead.