MOTIHARI: With a rabid dog bites over five dozen ‘morning saunters’ in local Gandhi Maidan 0n Tuesday, the victims of the surprise attacks limp into the city's biggest public hospitals creating a chaotic situation before medical staff on duty in Motihari Sadar Hospital.

As fear psychosis gripped among locals, the numbers of strollers reduced significantly on Wednesday. The rabid dog bites all age group people from young to old including some police personnel- would visit this field in morning to inhale pure oxygen and work out there.

The villagers of Majurahan village located just adjacent to this field however chased away but later on beaten to death the stray’s dog only after it had bit dozens of people. The outdoor of Motihari Sadar hospital was preoccupied since morning as the rabid animal began attacking at 5 am morning.

“The victims lined up outdoors to have rabies' injections and all the injured were properly attended by doctors on duty” said in-charge civil surgeon Shrawan Paswan.

Rakesh, Bhonu and Ramjee Sah said many take shelter in private hospitals after serious injuries and getting treatments there. Advocate SK Pankaj- a native of Majurahan village said that dogs attacked our villagers but animal was beaten to death immediately after it went on attacking helpless ones. “Enraged over the inaction by the nagar nigam  authorities over stray animals, locals reportedly beat the dog to death”, Pankaj Said.    

 

All told the same frightening story: stray dogs had bitten them.

Manoj Kumar, 10, had an angry slash across his back from the same dog that charged on him at the time he was running in the field.

“We rushed to the hospital where I was administered rabies' injection closed,” said Manoj's father.

Notably, packs of strays lurk in public parks, guard alleyways and street corners and howl nightly in neighborhoods and villages in the district. Joggers carry bamboo rods to beat them away, and bicyclists fill their pockets with stones to throw at chasers.

A law under section 428 and 429 of IPC of Prevention of Cruelty to Animal Act forbade the killing of dogs, and the stray dog’s population has increased in Motihari much.

While Kaushal Dubey, manager of Sadar hospital admitted that Motihari Sadar Hospital alone had administered rabies injection over five dozen victims of Gandhi Maidan, Nagar Nigam commissioner Saurabh Yadav said they are contemplating catching stray dogs and leaving them in forest regions.