11-yr-old girl mauled to death by pack of stray dogs

Bareilly: An 11-year-old girl was mauled to death by a pack of stray dogs in Shahjahanpur’s Kakra area on Sunday morning.Sawaliya, daughter of daily wage labourer Naim, had gone to a field with her father to collect vegetables around 7 am. As they reached near a charging station, Naim asked her to return home and send his brother, Ikram.Moments later, a pack of five to six stray dogs attacked the child, inflicting multiple bite injuries on her neck and other parts of the body.Passersby alerted Naim and by the time he reached the spot with others, Sawaliya was lying in a pool of blood while the dogs continued to maul her. Locals chased the animals away and rushed her to Government Medical College, where she died during treatment.The family later took the body home.CO (City) Pankaj Pant told TOI, “I visited the family following the incident. They refused a postmortem examination in writing.”