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The owner of the dog, Innocent Amiko, said he does not understand how this incident happened. I was furious and kept asking him, how the hell do you leave a gate open with such an aggressive dog.”įour-year-old Amorey was admitted to the hospital while the other injured children received stitches and treatment for their wounds
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“I found that gate of the house where the pit bull is kept was open. “We found several bits of Amorey flesh on the t-shirt we used to wrap the bleeding wounds,” said a shocked Coetzee.Ĭoetzee said when he got to the place where the children had been attacked, he found the aggressive dog still there. Once we reached the house, I gave Amorey to my wife, Martie, and I ran back to check where the dog was as I was scared that it would attack someone else,” he said. “I took off my shirt and tried to cover the visible wounds as I was running home with her in my arms and Verushka with me. I tried my best, but he bit Amorey and me.”Ĭoetzee said he could see that Amorey was severely injured as she was bleeding profusely. “She just kept saying dad the dog bit us. I could not hear what he was saying, but I knew something was wrong, and I just started running,” he said.Ĭoetzee said he found his eldest daughter crying hysterically and screaming, standing in the street with her little sister Amorey in her arms.ĪLSO READ: Elderly man dies after two pitbull terriers attacked him in Durbanville “We were busy at home when all of a sudden my son came running up to me, shouting something. Three children, Amorey, Verushka and Deon were injured in the attack. The three siblings were given money to quickly go and buy sweets at the tuck shop down the road on Saturday afternoon, 6 November 2021.Ī pit bull stormed and attacked the children who were walking the street. She added that Amorey and her siblings, Verushka and Diwan are still traumatised after the vicious attack.