Days after 3rd birthday, girl dies as boiling milk spills on her while fleeing barking dog

A stray dog chase caused a three‑year‑old girl to slip on a pot of boiling milk, resulting in fatal burns in Nandur Haveli, Beed district, Maharashtra. Police said the child, Durga Pradeep Budhnar, was playing outside when the dog suddenly charged and barked aggressively, prompting her to run toward her house. She tripped over a large vessel of boiling milk placed on an earthen chulha in the courtyard, the milk spilled over her, and her parents rushed her first to a private hospital and then to Beed District Civil Hospital. “She succumbed to her injuries during treatment,” the official said. Police have opened an investigation into the incident and are probing the circumstances surrounding the stray dog’s presence.