A pack of “man-eating” stray dogs mauled three children to death in an Indian town this week — raising the number of kids mauled to death by canines in that region to 14, according to reports.

The pre-teen children were killed by the ferocious, free-roaming dogs in separate incidents Tuesday in the Sitapur district.

Two of the children, ages 12 and 8, were killed by the dogs as they collected mangoes from orchard fields, and an 11-year-old girl was killed when she stepped outside to relieve herself in the fields, the Times of India reported.

Residents of Khairabad quickly took matters into their own hands Tuesday, killing 13 strays — shooting three of them and fatally beating the others — disregarding a 2001 animal welfare law that barred the killing of stray dogs, officials said.

“Our investigations revealed the children were alone at the time of attacks,” district police chief Sureshrao A. Kulkarni told AFP as he confirmed the three child deaths.

Kulkarni said a team of vets and forest officials had been set up to control the killer dogs.

According to AFP, authorities linked the uptick in dog attacks to the closure of a slaughterhouse in the area in November. Many of the strays previously fed on animal carcasses.

Meanwhile, panicked villagers remained on edge.

“We were earlier worried about wild animals like tigers and leopards, but now we seek help even on spotting a pack of dogs. We don’t let children go out alone in the night. Elders in the family take turns to guard villages with [a heavy stick bound with iron],” villager Ayud Khan, who lost his 6-year-old child in March, told the Times of India.

India has more than 30 million stray dogs and about 17 million reported dog bites each year.

With Post wires