A 15-year-old boy was critically injured after being mauled by a neighbour’s dog, pit bull, in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, on Tuesday afternoon.
The incident was captured on CCTV. In the video, the boy, identified as Altaf, can be seen falling on the ground as the pit bull charges on him, with a man and a woman watching from a distance but not intervening.
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Kicking furiously, the boy rolls around the ground trying to get the dog off him. Someone throws water to distract the dog. The boy manages to get up and run to safety with the dog still following him.
As he clutches on a door, street dogs come charging at the pit bull and the boy manages to get inside a house.
The pet dog belongs to a family who recently moved to the neighbourhood. The dog has been seized by the Municipal Corporation, NDTV reported.
The boy is critical and is undergoing treatment at a Delhi hospital.
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The incident comes a month after the central government directed states to ban the sale and breeding of over 20 breeds of ferocious dogs, including Pit bull Terriers, American Bulldogs, Rottweilers and Mastiffs, amid rising instances of pet dog attacks.
