2 min readJaipurApr 28, 2026 05:27 PM IST
Four days after being attacked by dogs in Rajasthan’s Ajmer district, a one-and-a-half-month-old baby died on Tuesday morning while undergoing treatment at JLN Hospital.
According to doctors, the child suffered severe organ damage and was on ventilator support.
The incident occurred on the night of April 24 in Kalesara village, about 40 km from Ajmer city. The child’s 30-year-old mother said, “I was cooking outside our hut on the night of April 24. My husband had gone to work. Inside the hut, my two sons — one of them one and a half months old and the other three years old — were sleeping. The dogs entered the hut and directly attacked my younger son. The elder one was covered with a blanket. Perhaps that’s why he escaped the dogs’ attention.”
She said she heard the infant’s cries and ran inside to see the dogs attacking him “I struggled for about five minutes, freed the child from a dog’s jaws, and lay down on top of him. Only then did the dogs go away. After the incident, my husband rented a car and took the injured child to JLN Hospital.”
Assistant Superintendent of JLN Hospital, Amit Yadav, said, “A team of paediatric surgeons operated on the child brought in on the night of April 24… The child’s pulse could not be felt at all, and his blood pressure had dropped so low that it couldn’t even be recorded… This is the first case of such a violent dog bite attack on a child [that we have seen]. Efforts were taken to revive the child with proper treatment, but the previous night, his heart stopped beating. He was revived with CPR, but he died this morning. Now, his postmortem will be done.”
