In a harrowing incident, a two-year-old girl was mauled by street dogs resulting in her death. The body of girl was found near the ‘Chhattisgarh Haat’ in Pandri locality of the city on Thursday morning, police said.
The Station House Officer (SHO) Devendra Nagar informed that the deceased identified as Rajnandini (2) was daughter of Rajesh lohar resident of Devsara village, Kabirdham district. The father of the girl is a labourer and presently works a guard in an under construction building in Pandri area, SHO said.
On Wednesday night, after taking dinner the girl slept with her mother in the house. About mid-night when Rajnandini’s mother woke up she found her daughter missing. The panicked mother then started to look around the house for the baby but could not find her. Around 4 am, she reached reached Devendra Nagar Police Station along with her husband seeking help, the SHO said.
At daybreak, some locals spotted the body of a child near Chhattisgarh Haat who then informed the parents of girl and the police, SHO informed adding that bite marks were found all around the girl’s body.
Over the incident The Pioneer contacted Mayor Kiranmayee Nayak who while terming the incident unfortunate blamed the ruling BJP Government for non-cooperation in providing of funds so that problem of street dogs could be contained. She said that permanent ‘Dog Sterilisation House’ is the only solution for such kinds of incidents.
“For the past 4 years, we were constantly striving for a ‘Permanent Dog Sterilisation House’ but funds were sanctioned recently and the building is in its last leg now. Few years back we had spent `20 lakh on sterilization of dogs and recently `50 lakh were sanctioned in the meeting of Mayor-in-Council to curb this problem which is yet to be obtained,” she said.