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A pair of coyotes pounced on a 6-year-old girl in suburban Rye, biting her on the shoulder and thigh before the girl’s mother chased them off.

The child had been playing with her sisters and friends in her front yard Friday evening while the coyote duo skulked behind a bush, neighbor Matheus Hovers said.

The crazed canines jumped the girl, the smallest in the group of five kids.

Shrieks of horror from the other children alerted the victim’s mother, Kelly Hodulik. The coyotes took off as Hodulik raced to the rescue of her fallen child, police said.

The girl, whose name was not released, was treated at a hospital and was back home yesterday.

Shortly after the attack, cops chased a coyote across a golf course in the Westchester town. An officer opened fire but missed.

Earlier this year, a coyote in Rye killed a toy poodle.

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