(MENAFN- Live Mint) A three-year-old toddler was brutally mauled to death by a pack of stray dogs in the early hours of October 20 after she wandered out of her house in Maharashtra's Jalna city, while her father slept, PTI reported citing police.

According to the police, the incident occurred in the Yashwant Nagar area of Jalna city at around 3.30 am on October 20, when the girl wandered outside

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The police official told PTI that the toddler has been identified as Pari Goswami. She was meant to accompany her mother and older sister to their native place in Bihar on October 19, but chose to stay back with her father, it added.

Later in the early hours of the morning on October 20, while her father was asleep, Pari walked out of the house reportedly searching for her mother, and wandered onto the street. There a pack of stray dogs attacked her and dragged the girl to a nearby open plot, the official added.

Pari was rescued by a police constable who was on a morning walk, who noticed the dogs mauling the child and immediately chased them away, the official said.

The local police were alerted, and the severely injured girl was rushed to a hospital, where doctors declared her dead, he added.

According to the official, the tehsil police have registered a case of accidental death, and further investigation is underway.

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On October 4, two separate stray dog attacks were reported on foreign coaches at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Stadium's warm-up track during the World Para Athletics Championships (WPAC).

Japanese fencing coach Meiko Okumatsu and Kenyan sprints coach Dennis Maragia Mwanzo were both bitten by stray dogs while supervising their athletes' training ahead of competition rounds. A security guard at one of the stadium's entrance gates was also attacked. All three incidents occurred within 30 minutes of each other.

Both the coaches were provided on-spot medical attention at the Athlete Medical Room and then taken to Safdarjung Hospital where they received appropriate treatment, after which they were taken to their respective team hotels, according to the organisers.

(With inputs from PTI)

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