A Durban school employee suffered serious dog bites when he shielded a young child from a pit bull attack outside a Durban school on Tuesday.
Garrith Jamieson of ALS Paramedics said they responded to calls of a dog attack in Gordon Road, to find police had cordoned off the road at about 7am.
“Paramedics were shown to where a man believed to be in his forties had sustained multiple serious dog bites to his body. He had been attacked by a pit bull.
“Paramedics also treated and transported a young child as a result of this horrific incident,” Jamieson said.
It is alleged a woman and child were walking towards the school when the dog ran out of a nearby house towards the child.
“The man, a worker from the school, shielded the child from the dog, thus possibly saving her life.”
He said police “dealt” with the dog and are investigating.
On Sunday, a three-year-old boy was attacked by a pit bull in the Bluff while walking on the road with his mother.
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School employee hospitalised after shielding child from pit bull attack
A Durban school employee suffered serious dog bites when he shielded a young child from a pit bull attack outside a Durban school on Tuesday.
Garrith Jamieson of ALS Paramedics said they responded to calls of a dog attack in Gordon Road, to find police had cordoned off the road at about 7am.
“Paramedics were shown to where a man believed to be in his forties had sustained multiple serious dog bites to his body. He had been attacked by a pit bull.
“Paramedics also treated and transported a young child as a result of this horrific incident,” Jamieson said.
It is alleged a woman and child were walking towards the school when the dog ran out of a nearby house towards the child.
“The man, a worker from the school, shielded the child from the dog, thus possibly saving her life.”
He said police “dealt” with the dog and are investigating.
On Sunday, a three-year-old boy was attacked by a pit bull in the Bluff while walking on the road with his mother.
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