BAREILLY: A three-year-old girl was mauled to death by a pack of feral pet dogs at Bandia town in CB Ganj location of Bareilly on Tuesday.

According to medical professionals, there were at least 200 canine bite marks on her body.Pari, daughter of Avdhesh Gangwar, a labourer, was the youngest of 4 sisters and a sibling.

On Tuesday night, she was playing in the yard of their house while her elder sis Sunita was preparing supper.

Pari quickly strolled towards a field to play when around seven-eight starving dogs caught her.According to locals, a youth heard her crying for help and hurried to save her.

He too was bitten by the canines when he took Pari from their clutches.

She was hurried to hospital, where medical professionals declared her dead.Paris uncle Jitendra Kumar said, She walked far from the house and nobody in the household could hear her screams for aid.

The dogs even dragged her for almost 50 metres and bit her all over the body, causing deep injuries, particularly on the neck.

CB Ganj SHO Ashok Kumar stated, We have actually sent out a group to the village to validate the occurrence.

The household refused to provide the body for autopsy and buried it based on Hindu routines.

The community corporation has actually been informed about the incident and has actually been directed to take required steps to take on the roaming pet dog hazard.

Jogendra Kumar, a local, informed TOI, A couple of prohibited slaughterhouses were operating in the area and stray pets utilized to eat abattoir waste.

And now such units have been closed, and these stray pet dogs have turned violent as they go starving.

Locals are not in any position to feed these animals every day.

Individuals have written to the civic body lot of times concerning the stray canine hazard, but their campaign typically ends after catching a few pet dogs.

There have actually been 15 pet dog bite cases in the town in the recent past.

This is the third such incident reported from Bandia town in CB Ganj.

On April 27, 2021, 10-year-old Morpal and in July 2020, seven-year-old woman Rohini were mauled to death by stray pets in the town.

Also, a seven-year-old boy was killed by strays in Rampur on March 15 last year while an eight-year-old girl was trampled to death in Pilibhit in December 2021.

A comparable occurrence happened in Hyderabad just recently in which a four-year-old young boy was killed by pet dogs in a housing society.

CCTV video footage of the incident showed the pets trampling and attempting to drag the kid away.