On Sunday afternoon, 16 dead puppies were found outside the premises of Neel Ratan Sircar Medical College in Kolkata, leading to fury among the city’s dog lovers. One dog has survived so far.
On Sunday afternoon, 16 dead puppies were found outside the premises of Neel Ratan Sircar Medical College in Kolkata, leading to fury among the city’s dog lovers. One dog has survived so far.
This news has sent the canine-loving community in the city into a tizzy and already a police complaint has been filed to nab the culprits.
Here's the latest update in the case:
1. Poisoned?
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It is suspected that the dogs were killed by mixing poison in food. On Sunday afternoon, wife of a hospital staffer first noticed some black coloured garbage bags lying outside the hospital premises.
She saw the head of a puppy peeping out from one of the bags. Out of curiosity, when she looked through the bags, to her horror, she found the dead bodies of 16 puppies.
2. Animal lovers aghast
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Soon the news spread and many animal-loving associations reached the spot. They suspect that the dogs were fed food laced with poison.
3. Who are the suspects?
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A complaint has been filed in the Entally police station. Later, police took the bodies away. Postmortem of the bodies will be done in the Barasat animal hospital to ascertain the cause of the death. Police are also likely to check the CCTV footages in the neighbouring areas to see who dumped the bags in front of the hospital.
4. Dog lovers aghast
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According to some reports, two girls were seen dumping the bags in front of the hospital. Though their identity is yet to be ascertained.
The news spread like wildfire on the social media pages of Kolkata dog lovers on Facebook.
5. One puppy survives
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All of them are demanding speedy justice for the death of the dogs. Conspiracy theories about possible culprits are also being floated, though nothing is known for sure as of now.
A lot of food was also recovered from the bags. Only one puppy managed to stay alive.
