India, Dec. 22 -- A 12-year-old girl returning from her school was severely injured after she was allegedly attacked by a group of stray dogs in northwest Delhi's Kirari on Friday afternoon.

The girl was identified as Kavya Sharma, a student of Class 4 who lives in Kirari, her family said.

The girl's family alleged that the attack resulted from the Municipal Corporation of Delhi's (MCD's) "inaction" after the civic body "overlooked" a complaint about dog menace in the area two months earlier.

According to Kavya's family, she was walking home with three others when a group of four-five stray dogs attacked her. "The dogs caught hold of my granddaughter while the other kids managed to flee. Scared after the dogs bit her thighs, Kavya fell...