Bangalore: A dog bit 20 people, including six schoolchildren, at Chandra Layout I Stage, on Tuesday.

Eyewitness Dhananjayappa told The Hindu that the dog first attacked groups of children who were on their way to school. It then attacked people who were on their morning walk and those working in construction sites nearby, he said. The incident occurred between 7 a.m. and 9.30 a.m.

Mr. Dhananjayappa said the dog badly attacked the watchman of a building under construction. The watchman was bitten all over the face and body.

When news spread, a group of people attacked the dog with rods and stones. The dog took refuge inside a drain for the next two hours, he said. A resident called the Bangalore Mahanagara Palike Stray Dog Control Programme and the Animal Rights Fund and the dog was taken away later.

"The dog was not rabid. It was just a ferocious one that has been captured and now euthanised," said Deputy Commissioner (Health) Manu Baligar. Prakash Reddy, in-charge of the Bangalore Mahanagara Palike Stray Dog Control Programme, said he had no knowledge about the incident.

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Mr. Dhananjayappa said that the area had many dogs and that people had been requesting the BMP to do the needful for the past three years. But no action had been taken, he said.

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