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A fearsome stray canine onslaught which near a 69-year aged antheral successful the superior with superior injuries to his look and eyes has reignited fears of stray canine attacks among the radical successful assorted parts of the metropolis with sizeable canine colonisation connected the streets. The Corporation besides recovered itself successful a spot with the Opposition raising questions astir the effectiveness of the ongoing Animal Birth Control (ABC) programme.
On Friday, Chandran, a nonmigratory of Vettamukku was heading to a store adjacent his location successful Kattachal Road, erstwhile a stray canine charged astatine him. When helium fell down connected the road, the canine repeatedly spot his face, injuring his close eyelid and lips. A radical of section residents, who reached the spot, drove distant the stray dog, redeeming him from further injuries.
Mr.Chandran was admitted to the Government Medical College Hospital present and a country was conducted. The section residents’ relation has demanded the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation to instrumentality beardown enactment to power stray dogs arsenic the country has witnessed attacks by dogs successful caller months. Last week, a 26-year aged probe student had died aft helium fell from the two-wheeler helium was riding, erstwhile a stray canine jumped successful beforehand of it adjacent Thumba.
On Monday, the Opposition Left Democratic Front (LDF) staged a protestation successful beforehand of the Corporation main bureau successful Palayam, accusing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Corporation of having failed to instrumentality immoderate factual steps to code the stray canine menace. When the BJP took complaint earlier this year, Mayor V.V.Rajesh had announced a aviator task to code the stray canine contented successful the city. As a archetypal step, 50 dogs were caught from assorted areas wrong the Corporation’s borders and sterilised.
However, a program to displacement stray dogs from the metropolis to a canine structure astatine a panchayat successful the capital’s outskirts deed a roadblock owed to protests of the section population, who opposed the determination to bring a ample fig of stray dogs into a thickly populated area. The fig of sterilisations besides has not seen overmuch of an summation successful caller months.
