Bhopal: Six-year-old girl mauled by strays in Koh-e-Fiza

BHOPAL

: A 6-year-old

girl

was attacked by a pack of more than half-a-dozen stray dogs in front of her mother in Koh-e-Fiza locality on Tuesday night. The girl tried to run away and fell on the road. She sustained severe injuries on her face as the dogs mauled her severely.


Two youths, who were chatting nearby intervened and shooed away the dogs. The girl’s mother fell unconscious after spotting blood oozing out from her minor girl’s face. The seriously wounded girl was rushed to a hospital from where she was discharged after treatment. Doctors said she will have to undergo a surgery.

Eyewitness to the incident, Mohammed Ali Khan, (21), a resident of Royal Apartment in Koh-e-Fiza told TOI that he had gone to his friend Aman Hyder’s house in Housing Board Colony on Tuesday night. When they were chatting outside Aman’s house around 10.30pm, they heard screams of a minor girl. They rushed out and spotted that the girl was lying upside down on the road and a pack of more than half-a-dozen stray dogs were biting her all over the body. The girl’s mother was trying to shoo away the dogs, but they attacked her too.

Ali said that he and his friend somehow managed to shoo away the dogs by pelting stones and sticks. When they lifted the girl, her face was drenched in blood. She had severe injuries on her face. The girl’s mother fell unconscious after watching the condition of her daughter.

Ali said that the girl’s father Mohammed Faheem Khan, who runs a car broker shop, told them that he and his wife Shaheen were walking in the colony after dinner. Her daughter Riza took money from him to buy sweets and went to a nearby shop. When she was returning from the shop, the dogs attacked her.

Ali said that they rushed Riza to a nearby private hospital in her father’s car. Her father was so tense that he could not even drive his car.

Ali drove the car but there were no doctors in that hospital so they took her to another hospital where she was provided treatment. Aman said that the colony residents were fed up with stray dogs’ menace in their locality and have complained to BMC officials more than a dozen times in the past six months.