In yet another case of pet dog menace in the Delhi-NCR region, a six-year-old boy was seriously injured after having been bitten by a pet inside the lift of a residential complex in Greater Noida on Tuesday. CCTV footage from inside the lift shows the dog attacking the child even as the boy tried hiding behind a woman, assumably his mother.
Watch the video here.
The incident took place in Greater Noida’s La Residentia residential complex. This follows a series of other incidents in Noida where dog bites have become a frequent occurrence.
Many such instances have been reported from Delhi-Noida region.
A Gurugram woman compensation of Rs 2 lakh to a woman who was injured after being attacked by a pet dog in August. In another case, a seven-month-old child died after he was mauled by a stray dog inside Lotus Boulevard society in Noida Sector 100. Another child in the Sanjay Nagar colony, Kush Tyagi, was attacked by a Pitbull and got 150 stitches on his face.
Amid a series of pet dog attacks, the Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation has banned the residents from keeping the ferocious Pitbull, Rottweiler and Dogo Argentino breeds as pets.
The civic body issued a host of other guidelines on Saturday for pet-owners according to which they will have to get a licence for their dogs, which will be issued from November 1, and no family can keep more than one pet dog.
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