Dog saves master's family

By Manas Dasgupta

AHMEDABAD, FEB. 1. A Pomeranian has saved the lives of its master's wife and two sons trapped under the rubble of their house in the quake-hit Bhachau town of Kutch district in Gujarat.

Mr. Narsinhbhai Bhati, a bank employee, had gone out on Republic Day when the earthquake struck. He rushed back but could not locate his house as more than 90 per cent of the 600 houses in the colony had been reduced to rubble.

As Mr. Bhati ran around frantically, trying to locate his family members, his dog, Rocky, started barking.

Immediately, Mr. Bhati ran to the spot and with the help of some of the other survivors, removed mounds of debris and dragged out his wife and two sons who were unconscious.

The injured Rocky was the last to jump out of the debris on his own.

Mr. Bhati, however, lost both his daughters, one crushed under the debris and the other killed in her school during the Republic Day function.

His wife and two sons are being treated at the Mehsana civil hospital. The faithful dog, despite his injuries, refuses to leave the hospital.

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