Hyderabad, March 17 -- For 15 months, Manchikatla Maniteja's life hung in the balance on a life support ventilator, as his parents desperately tried to save their eight-year-old son.

But on Monday, March 16, the child breathed his last.

It was any other day on December 26, 2024, for Maniteja and his parents, Manchikatla Srinivas and Madhavi, who were attending a relative's marriage in their hometown in Telangana's Jagtial district, said local reports.

The festivities soon turned sombre when the boy, who was playing outside with other children, was attacked by a stray dog. The child suffered grave injuries to his neck and shoulders.

His anxious parents rushed him to a hospital in Jagtial and later shifted him to a private hospital in H...