Dogs disappear from Delhi's streets

First it was Delhi's beggars, now many of the city's canine residents have gone missing.

Usually dogs are an integral part of the street scene in Delhi - curled asleep in gutters with traffic buzzing inches from their noses, or dozing under parked cars.

But outside the Games village it is a different scene.

Dog catchers are rounding up dogs using long poles with nooses on the end and tossing them roughly into the back of trucks.