A seven-year-old boy was killed by a pack of stray dogs at Mheas Bir near Nabha here.
The boy, Manish, was rushed to PGIMER in Chandigarh where he died due to excessive bleeding, police said.
Police said that the incident took place on Saturday afternoon when the boy went to a nearby plantation to pluck some mangoes. His father, Babu Ram, was resting at a brick kiln after eating lunch.
The boy was attacked and dragged by the pack of dogs, before mauling him. A passerby noticed the boy being attacked by dogs and he tried to save him, they said.
He was first taken to a hospital here and then referred to the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER).
In a similar incident, a five-year-old girl was killed by a pack of stray dogs in Punjab’s Sangrur district on last Wednesday.