9-year-old on his way to mosque attacked by stray dogs
NT Correspondent
Bengaluru: A nine-year-old boy was attacked by a pack of stray dogs on his way to mosque for prayers in Kolar district. The victim, Jaffar, was attacked by the dogs early on Friday, when he was on his way to a mosque to offer Ramzan prayers.
A police constable who was near the Rahmatnagar mosque heard the child’s screams and stopped at the spot to notice the victim Jaffar being attacked by a pack of stay dogs. Constable Rajanna chased the dogs away from the boy and rushed the bleeding child to a nearby hospital.
In a video of the incident circulating on social media, the 9-year-old boy is seen running away from the pack of dogs into a street where the dogs brutally attack the boy. Then the police constable is seen arriving in a car, shooing the dogs away and rushing the boy to a hospital. Jaffar is currently receiving treatment at the RL Jalappa Hospital in Kolar, where he was admitted.
The number of dog attacks in the state is still at large in the state with over two lakh cases of dog bites reported in Karnataka in the year 2022. The number of deaths owing to rabies also went up in the year 2022, with six rabies deaths recorded.