Dogs Eat Newborn Babies After Their Bodies Were Abandoned In Trash Cans

Dogs were found feeding on newborn babies after their bodies were dumped in trash cans in Chennai, the capital of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

On Wednesday (June 10) afternoon, a resident of Perambur found “a pack of stray dogs fighting over something wrapped in a cover” while walking back home. The plastic cover was placed next to a trash can. He went closer to check and found it was a newborn baby. He immediately alerted the police who rushed to the scene and recovered the body of the baby boy. The body was sent to a nearby hospital for autopsy.

A few hours later, another baby was found in Chromepet, an area located 18 miles from Perambur. A passerby saw a pack of dogs fighting near a trash can. He went closer and found the newborn. The residents immediately chased the canines away and alerted the police.

According to local reports, in both cases, police believe the babies died before they were abandoned in the trash cans on the roadside. They were, however, waiting for the autopsy results. Investigation into the incidents was ongoing and police were collecting details from the nearby hospitals.

The incident comes days after stray dogs were found feeding on the body of a newborn girl in the Indian state of Gujarat. A woman found a pack of dogs eating the newborn's body dumped near her house. She immediately alerted the police. Investigation into the incident was ongoing to find out how the body was dumped near the woman’s house.

In another incident in the western Indian state of Maharashtra in April, a stray dog was spotted walking around the streets with an infant’s head in its jaws. A resident immediately alerted the police who arrived at the scene and seized the head from the dog.

“It seems that the head got detached from the body about two days back. We are investigating whether it was severed by somebody or whether dogs bit it off,” police said, adding the body was sent for autopsy. The age of the baby was not known.