Stray dogs suspected of killing homeless woman

Police believe she was sleeping near an under-construction building

An unidentified homeless woman is suspected to have been killed and partly eaten by a pack of stray dogs near Talaghattapura on the city’s outskirts on Friday. The body, which was mutilated, was discovered by residents in the wee hours of Saturday. Residents told the police that they saw the woman being hounded by a pack of dogs around 9.30 p.m. on Friday. They chased the dogs away. A few hours later, her body was discovered. “The woman, estimated to be around 60 years, was very frail and weak. She was a homeless person. She was probably sleeping near an under-construction building. She is yet to be identified,” said a senior police official. “The dogs seem to have bitten her at multiple places, killed her and eaten some parts of the body.”