Infant mauled to death by stray dog in Vikarabad

A five month-old child died after being mauled by a dog at Tandur in Vikarabad district on Tuesday.

According the police, Dattu and Lavanya, natives of Mahabubnagar, worked in a factory and lived with their child, Sai. Like every day, the couple on Tuesday left behind their five month-old son at home and



went to work. In between, Lavanya returned to the house to take water and noticed a dog loitering near the house.

“She went inside the house and found the child badly mauled by a dog and bleeding profusely. The family rushed the child to a hospital where doctors pronounced him dead,” said the police.