[size=75:2sxig86l]Sofia echo 17 March 2010
Stray dogs killed in Pernik
Stray dogs in the industrial Bulgarian town of Pernik, about 30km west of Sofia, have been poisoned and killed, the Bulgarian national television BNT reported on March 17 2010.
Deputy mayor Ivan Dzhegalski said in a telephone interview that the dead dogs were found by pedestrians, scattered in the city centre. Civil Protection agents dispatched to the site said there was no evidence of poison being "
administered across the town"
but that the dogs had been fed and targeted "
personally"
.
Dzhegalski said that residents ought to remain vigilant until it is determined what kind of poison killed the dogs. He also categorically denied that the municipality had had any role in the dogs' deaths.
Elitsa Eneva from the Dai Lapa organisation said that the carcasses were collected and were being examined. The results will be made available later on March 17.
Eneva said that there was a drastic increase in cases of people in Pernik being bitten by strays, Bulgarian national television said.
In a brutal and unprecedented attack in Sofia on January 31 2010, a pack of stray dogs entered the grounds of Sofia Zoo and killed 15 animals, including deer and fawn.
The pack of strays penetrated the deer enclosure via a car park near the fence. Having climbed a structure in the parking lot, the pack then jumped into the zoo grounds.
On October 19 2009, a pack of stray dogs dismembered a six-year-old girl, Kristiana Marinova, from the Razgrad village of Topchii.
The Sofia Echo witnessed a case when a pack of stray dogs attacked an elderly woman in the park at Ritualna Zala in the Sofia borough of Hipodrouma in January 2010.
In 2007, British woman Ann Gordon died after being attacked in the Bulgarian village of Nedyalsko.
Wed Mar 17, 2010 4:06 pm
