17:05, 4 April 2018

Pack of dogs attacks a child in Kabardino-Balkaria

Stray dogs. Photo by Vyacheslav Yaschenko for the "Caucasian Knot"

On April 2, a three-year-old boy from Baksan was attacked by a pack of stray dogs, one of the townspeople has reported.

According to his story, the boy ran out into the street, where he was attacked by about ten dogs. His mother managed to disperse the pack, but the child was hospitalized, the "Region Online" has reported.

Investigators will check whether any complaints about packs of stray dogs had arrived at the Baksan administration, the website of the Investigating Department for Kabardino-Balkaria of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) reports.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on February 19, 2017, in another city of Northern Caucasus, Makhachkala, the body of a nine-year-old schoolgirl was found, who had been bitten to death by stray dogs.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.