{
  "id": 16200033,
  "title": "Mumbai Records 17 Dog-Bite Cases Every Hour In 2025, Nearly Double 2021 Rate",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/23/mumbai-records-17-dog-bite-cases-every-hour-in-2025-nearly-double",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-23T14:39:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/mumbai/mumbai-records-17-dog-bite-cases-every-hour-in-2025-nearly-double-2021-rate"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Mumbai, October 23, 2026: Nearly 17 people reported dog bites every hour in Mumbai in 2025, almost twice the hourly rate recorded in 2021, raising questions about the effectiveness of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) stray dog sterilisation and anti-rabies vaccination programmes. The city recorded 1,54,017 dog-bite cases last year, its highest annual tally in the five-year data…",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}