RAHIM YAR KHAN: A pack of stray dogs mauled to death three brothers at Liaquatpur, 90km from here, on Monday.

Assistant Commissioner Liaquatpur Zahoor Husain Bhutta told Dawn that Ali Husnain, 8, Abdullah, 5, and Ubaidullah, 3, were working along with their elder brother in a field near their home in Chak 66, Abbasia, when a pack of seven dogs attacked them.

Their brother ran to call his mother for help and she rushed to the field but only to find the children dead.

The dogs also attacked and injured her but soon other people reached there and saved her.

The AC said the woman had been administered anti-rabies vaccine. He said police and Rescue 1122 had been told to cull the dogs roaming about in a nearby orchard.

A large number of people attended the funeral prayer of the siblings.

Published in Dawn, June 2nd, 2015

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