SOUTH AFRICA -- The tiny‚ lifeless body of three-year old Amukelani Bhengu lying on the kitchen floor of his home‚ covered with a blood-stained towel was a stark reminder of a tragic pit bull attack.
His mother‚ Zama Bhengu‚ 29‚ watched in horror on Monday as their pet pit bull dogs turned on her child at their modest home in M-section‚ Umlazi‚ in Durban.
Bhengu was too distraught to talk to the media. Her mother‚ Sylvia Shangase‚ said her daughter was feeding the dogs in the morning when they attacked the child.
“As you see we are all very traumatised by the incident. It’s too hard to talk about it‚” she said.
Shangase‚ who was not there at the time of the incident‚ said the two dogs had been put down by the police.
Netcare 911 spokesman Chris Botha said paramedics were called out to a dog bite incident in Umlazi where a boy was attacked by a family dog.
Paramedics arrived at the family residence and found the child lying on the kitchen floor with “extensive injuries from the violent attack”.
It appeared that the child was attacked in the garden and then moved to the house by family members.
“Tragically‚ the child had died before our arrival due to the extensive injuries that he sustained over the entire body‚” said Botha.
He added that the details of the case would be investigated by the police.
Last month‚ mother of one Mpho Mokoena‚ 32‚ died after she was attacked by the family’s two Rottweilers and a Boerboel while hanging washing at her home in Montrose in Pietermaritzburg.
(Herald Live - May 17, 2016)
