Deeply traumatized and wounded from head-to-toe, the year-old Mudasir Wangnoo is lying on bed at his home in Lal Bazar area of Srinagar city. The ill-fated boy does not allow her mother, Sabra Jan to leave him alone in the room. Mudasir fall prey to the stray dogs near his house when he was returning from a tuition centre in a nearby locality on a chilly winter evening, on January According to the eye witnesses, more than two dozen dogs attacked the boy.
Some of the animals snatched his jacket away and others tried to snatch the flesh of his body. He was rescued by some passersby and local residents who heard the boy horrifically crying. He was rushed to the Sher-e-Kashmir Medical institute of Srinagar, where the doctors counted more than hundred dog-bites ——including some deep injuries in his head and limbs—— on his body. The unlucky boy is now at his home trying to recover his body wounds and physiological jolts. He is taking the high dose of anti-rabies vaccine and the medicine for his depression these days.
He cries during the night sleep after having nightmares related the unfortunate incident. He even does not dare to stay alone in the room. Mudasir is not the only person who became the casualty of the dog menace in the Valley. There are thousands others who have fallen prey to the stray dogs during past few years. On March 14, a 9-year old boy, Omar Farooq lost his life after he jumped into the River Jhelum trying to save himself from the dogs.
Omar along with his other friends was playing at the banks of the river in a downtown area of the city, when a group of dogs chased him. The stray dog population is enormously growing in the Srinagar city and the other towns of the Valley, since the Animal rights organisations forced the authorities to stop the poisoning process to kill the dogs in Since then the dog population is growing endlessly. Whatsapp Twitter Facebook Linkedin.
Sign Up. Edit Profile. Subscribe Now. Your Subscription Plan Cancel Subscription. Home India News Entertainment. HT Insight. My Account. Sign in. Sign out. Records at Srinagar's Anti-Rabies Clinic show 12 dog bite-related deaths in the last three years alone. Things have become so bad that the Jammu and Kashmir State Human Rights Commission has described dog attacks as "violation of human rights".
Mudasir Ahmad Wangnoo, a year-old student, is one of the latest victims. One evening in January, he was attacked by almost two dozen stray dogs, biting him nearly times. The dogs injured his neck, face and windpipe. Doctors found perforations caused by the bites in his heart that caused pneumopericardium- a medical condition in which air enters the heart.
Syed Sajad Hussain, 40, who rescued Mudasir from the dogs, said the attack was "extremely terrible". Fortunately Mudasir survived the attack, but others such as four-year-old Sehrab Wagay of south Kashmir's Pulwama, succumbed to rabies last August after being bitten by feral dogs. A count by the municipality found more than 90, stray dogs in Srinagar city. There has been no survey in the rest of the region, where dog bite cases outnumber those in Srinagar. Unofficial estimates and local NGOs put the number of dogs in the valley at more than a million, triggering fears of increasing dog-man conflict in the next few years if the dog population is not checked.
Recently, people in the city staged a protest demanding a cull of stray dogs. Noted poet Zareef Ahmad Zareef, who led the protest march, told the BBC that after years of "failure", the government had very little time to act now.
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