guntur in a gruesome incident a local panchayath near tenali town in the district killed about 70 stray dogs and buried them en masse the incident created ripples among the animal lovers as they rushed to the local police station and lodged a complaint sources said that the panchayath officials of halfpet village are believed to have engaged some people to kill the stray dogs following the complaints of locals all the stray dogs were believed to have been killed with cyanide shots in a span of two hours on sunday the panchayath staff shifted the culled dogs to a remote location on the outskirts of the village and buried them in the mass grave a student nsv sarath chandra was shocked to see the dogs being killed and buried en masse while he was on his way to guntur on sunday this mass slaughtering of dogs is not only violation of animal rights but a blatant disregard to the supreme court verdict sarath felt he said that he was pained to see the dumping of dozens of dogs bodies in the burial yard it is an inhumane act cried sarath chandra while explaining the horrific incident to toi he immediately alerted tejovath anupoju of help for animals society and sought his assistance in lodging a complaint against the officials tejovath who personally visited the village was also aghast after seeing the gruesome killing of innocent dogs with no one answering his call on dial 100 tejovath went to tenali police and lodged a complaint seeking immediate lodging of an fir against the panchayath officials he said that the stray dogs must be contained by sterilization and not by culling