Four German Shepard dogs mauled to death a 44-year-old man in Rabuor, Kisumu county.
In the Sunday morning incident, the dogs bit the deceased David Opinya in the neck, lower right armpit, and all over his body.
According to a police report, the incident was reported by one Joash Odhalo Gombe, a medical staff member working in Kisumu and the dog’s owner.
Gombe stated that while he was sleeping at home, he received a phone call from his neighbor Bob Kerah informing him that his dog had attacked and killed the deceased David Opinya, also a resident of the same village.
According to the police report, the deceased left Rabuor town at an unknown time for his home, and while passing the footpath along the reportee’s chain link fence, the four dogs chased him, mistaking him for a criminal.
“As he ran away from them, they caught up with him 500 meters away from the compound and attacked him,” read the report.
When the owner of the dogs received the message, he fled to the police station for his own safety.
Meanwhile, angry members of the public entered his homestead with the intent of destroying it, but local administration officials and police officers intervened to save the situation.
The locals went berserk and killed all the dogs with pangas and stones.
The body has been moved to Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital Morgue pending postmortem.
The owner of the dogs is currently detained while police investigate the incident.
