Dogs on the Scene

Zowie, this is an appalling story, with dogs playing a key role. It's the people's behavior that seems pretty awful; the dogs were being dogs.

From the Telegraph in India

Stray dogs bite into ‘cremated’ bodies
OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

Patna, Sept. 16: In death, they lost the right to live; after death, they lost the right for having last rites.

While villagers in Dhelphodwa took law in their hands to beat 10 thieves of a nomad community to death on Thursday, stray dogs today were up for feast on at least two of the bodies “cremated” at Konhara ghat on Friday.

In his report filed on Friday, Vaishali district welfare officer J.K. Mathur, who was also the magistrate in charge of the incident, said that all the 10 bodies were “cremated” after post-mortem.

This morning had a telltale evidence that something was wrong in the process when local people went to the ghat — on the confluence of the Ganga and Gandak — to take bath. “About six dogs were feeding on the two bodies swept ashore. Another seven bodies were also floating,” said Surendra Tiwary, the pundit at the ghat who takes care of the funeral process of bodies.