CHANDIGARH: A stray dog bit five people in Sector 41 on Sunday in an attack that lasted for a few hours and caused panic in the locality.The dog pounced upon two persons near the community centre around 2.30pm, and targeted the three others at different locations.Madan Lal, a daily wage labourer and a resident of Faida village, was bit thrice on his back, thigh and arm. “My husband had gone for some work in Sector 41. When he reached near the community centre, a stray dog bit him. He tried to escape but the dog kept on attacking him. The doctor has already given him six injections and he may need more. We are very poor and my husband is the only bread earner,” said Jyoti, the wife of Madan Lal, who has two kids — a seven-year-old boy and a four-year-old daughter.Two of the injured were taken to Government Multi-specialty Hospital, Sector 16, and the others to PGI. By the end of the day, the three at PGI were still under observation, while the other two had been discharged.The incident has raised questions over the steps taken by the municipal corporation (MC) to control the stray dog menace. According to records, the civic body has spent lakhs of rupees on sterilisation of dogs, but there has been no drop in dog bite cases. In the general house meetings too, the issue of sterilisation of stray dogs has been raised a numbers of times, with councillors demanding details on such camps ward-wise.