Stray dog attack caught on camera as Chinese university student runs for her life
Xiangtan University says incident captured on video is second attack in two days
A Chinese university says it has hired professional handlers to round up stray dogs on its campus and give them to animal welfare groups after two students were attacked in separate incidents this week.
Xiangtan University, in central Hunan province, will also step up security patrols on campus to tackle the problem but stressed it would not cull the dogs, The Beijing News reported on Thursday.
The university had to abandon a controversial plan to cull stray dogs last year after animal rights activists campaigned against it, according to the report.
The latest action was prompted by two attacks, one of them caught on security footage and posted on Weibo, China’s Twitter, where it has been watched more than two million times.
The video shows a female student walking alone along a path on Tuesday around 9pm when a pack of six dogs suddenly appear from nearby bushes and run towards her.