Aligarh (Uttar Pradesh): A three-month-old girl was mauled to death by a stray dog in Uttar Pradesh's Aligarh on Saturday night, police said. The incident took place at Maharana Pratap Colony of Swarna Jayanti Nagar area of Thana Quarsi. Street dogs lifted up a three-month-old girl sleeping in the house and attacked her as a result she died on the spot, police said.
According to the police, a marriage ceremony was going on in the house where the incident took place. At the same time, two dogs entered the house and dragged the three-month-old girl while she was sleeping and killed her. The locals saw the dog roaming around with the girl child in its mouth. Hearing the noise of the locals, the dog left the girl and ran away. However, the girl died on the spot.
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Meanwhile, the girl was buried on Sunday morning. On receiving the information, Quarsi police station in-charge Arvind Kumar reached the spot and started an investigation into the matter. The police team are checking the CCTV cameras installed nearby.
Earlier a man died in an attack by a pack of stray dogs on the Aligarh Muslim University premises in Uttar Pradesh. The deceased has been identified as Ashraf, a resident of Thana Civil Line. The incident was captured in a nearby installed CCTV camera and the video has gone viral on social media.
According to police sources, Ashraf went out for a morning walk in the garden of the university campus where the dogs attacked him. On receiving the information, the police, along with a dog squad, reached the spot and started an investigation into the incident.
