A 14-month-old girl was allegedly killed by an unidentified man inside a house in Nashik city of Maharashtra, police said Wednesday.
The man allegedly slit the throat of Swara Mukesh Pawar, the toddler, with a knife at her house at Paradise Apartments Tuesday afternoon and also attacked her mother Yogita Pawar (26).
The girl was declared brought dead at hospital.
Yogita, who is undergoing treatment at a private hospital, told reporters that the assailant entered the flat when she had gone downstairs to put garbage in collection van.
When she came back, she saw a man attacking her sleeping daughter in the bedroom, she said. He attacked her her when she tried to stop him, the woman claimed.
A case was registered at Adgaon police station.
Deputy commissioner of police Laxmikant Patil said no valuables were stolen by the unknown assailant, nor was there any sign of a scuffle inside the house, and the police were probing all the possibilities.
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