11 year Kerala boy dies to dangerous stray dog attack

According to police, an eleven-year-old boy had been found dead in Muzhappilangad district which appears to be an attack by a stray dog.

The boy, Nihal, apparently left his home on Sunday night, and when he didn't come back, his family and nearby residents started looking for him, according to the Edakkad police.The boy's dead body was discovered around 8 pm in Muzhappilangad town after several hours of searching the area, a police officer reported.

The officer noted that the child's body had plenty marks that appeared to be the result of an animal bite. He was taken to a hospital while unconscious. The hospital's medical staff pronounced him dead, the officer continued.


He claimed that the body had been moved to the mortuary.Additional police inquiries have begun.

Last year a similar incident happened in Kerala's Kottayam where a minor of 12 years died by an animal attack.

Keeping all these stray dog incidents in mind Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan had stated that killing stray dogs couldn't be a viable solution to the problem and that a scientific solution should be desired.

Similar dog attacks have suddenly increased across the nation in recent years, sometimes killing people.

A pit bull killed a 9-year-old girl playing outside her home in Meerut city in May of this year. While in March, two siblings, aged seven and five, were killed in two separate incidents in Delhi's Vasant Kunj neighbourhood, allegedly by stray dogs.