In a gruesome incident, a senior citizen was attacked and partly eaten up by over 50 stray dogs on Friday night on a suburban beach at nearby Kanjiramkulam in the Kerala state capital. The hapless woman, Siluvamma, 65 years, a resident of the coastal belt, was attacked by a large number of stray dogs at Pulluvila beach, according to her family. She suffered dog bites all over her body and succumbed to injuries while on her way to hospital. Angry relatives and residents of the area have blamed the city authority for her death. "We have lost all our patience as the authorities are hanging on to some obscure law which says dogs cannot be eliminated.

Are we inferior to these dogs," asked a group of angry residents in Pulluvilla. Another woman, identified as Daisy, from Pulluvilla was injured after dogs attacked her. She has been hospitalized. A leading businessman in Kerala who has been protesting against the stray dog menace, attacked Maneka Gandhi  “I know Gandhi will not be bitten by a dog because she moves around with high security. A probe should be launched into how much kickbacks are being received by people in the sale of anti-rabies vaccine. The state ministers are also silent and it has come to a stage that only if a dog bites a minister’s wife would there be action. It seems none is interested.”