FWD: Semporna stray dogs killed after boy’s death

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Thursday, August 22, 2002

Semporna stray dogs killed after boy & #8217;s death

 

 

KOTA KINABALU: More than a hundred stray dogs have been shot dead in the past 48

hours in the Sabah east coast town of Semporna following the death of a

seven-year-old schoolboy attacked by a pack of dogs on Monday.

 

The operation to hunt and shoot the dogs at a dumpsite near Kampung Selamat was

carried out jointly by police and Semporna district enforcement officials.

 

Semporna district police chief Deputy Supt Ariffin Ibrahim said between 100 and

130 stray dogs had been killed in the area in the operation that began on

Tuesday.

 

“We will move in again at night when most of the dogs, which hide in nearby

swamps, scavenge for food at the dumpsite,” he said.

 

Mohd Nasran Nasir, a local Bajau, died of multiple bites on his face, legs and

hands. He is believed to have been attacked by dozens of stray dogs while

walking alone on the dumpsite trail at about 7pm on Monday.

 

His body was found by his father at about 10pm while he was returning to their

Kampung Selamat home.

 

According to DSP Ariffin, the boy & #8217;s father did not realise his son had

followed him when he left home that evening on a work-related matter.

 

Police have met about 70 village headmen and village development and security

committee chairmen about eliminating stray dogs in their respective areas.

 

Large numbers of stray dogs are found in Semporna where action against them is

rare because of the belief that pirates would raid the town if the animals were

killed.

 

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