Two newborns on Wednesday were mauled by stray dogs who were found to be abandoned in a dustbin in different parts of the city. The shocking incident took place in Tamil Nadu's Raghavan Salai of Perambur and Mummoorthy Nagar of Chromepet.
“On Wednesday afternoon at around 12.15 at Perambur, a resident saw a pack of dogs fighting over something rapped in a plastic cover placed very close to a garbage on the road side. He checked and found it was a baby,” said a police officer.
The Thiru Vi Ka Nagar police were informed who rushed to the spot and recovered the fetus of a baby boy and sent it to the Kilpauk Medical College and Hospital. In Chromepet, the passer-by spotted a pack of dogs fighting near a dustbin and found the infant, police said. Locals of the area chased the dogs and alerted the Chromepet police.
The police suspects that in both the cases the babies were dead before they were dumped on the roadside, close to the dustbin. However, autopsy results are awaited. The police are also collecting records from nearby hospitals.