Horror as pit bull rips boy from jungle gym in vicious playground mauling

A brace of escaped pit bulls attacked a lad and a miss astatine a playground successful Brazil - with footage of the horrifying incidental showing 1 of the dogs ripping the lad from a jungle gym.

Video taken by a witnesser shows a brown-colored canine locking its jaws astir the boy's limb connected a playground successful São Paulo connected Tuesday arsenic the youngster fights to escaped himself and bystanders deed the canine with sticks. 

At immoderate point, the boy, 11, managed to escaped himself and pinned the canine to the ground.

The lad was taken by a neighbour to a section urgent attraction installation successful the vicinity of Vila Guilherme and was past transferred to a hospital, wherever helium underwent surgery, according to Brazilian quality outlet SBT.

The girl, 12, was rushed by constabulary to the aforesaid urgent attraction center, wherever she received attraction for lacerations to her head, chest, arms and legs.

Witnesses told the constabulary that the dogs had slipped retired of a scrapyard moments earlier the attack.

The dogs' owner, Marcos Sibioni, was questioned by constabulary for much than 3 hours Thursday and charged with carnal abuse, custody neglect and superior bodily harm.

Sibioni told reporters that helium ne'er neglected his pit bulls and said that the children had antecedently thrown rocks astatine the dogs - 1 of which had precocious fixed commencement to 2 puppies.

All 4 dogs were acceptable to beryllium taken to an carnal structure portion the authorities proceed the investigation.

The onslaught took spot conscionable days aft a 46-year-old man, Chris Culbertson, was fatally mauled by respective dogs successful Kansas City.

Culbertson was seen connected information footage riding his motorcycle the evening of November 1 erstwhile 2 dogs circled.

He fell to the crushed and much dogs broke done a fence, biting his arms, legs, feet and face.

He was attacked for 23 minutes and spot 300 times, his household said.

A period earlier, a five-year-old miss was besides mauled by her neighbor's pit bull successful Independence, Kansas. 

The kid was playing successful her backyard connected October 8 erstwhile the onslaught occurred. 

Her skull was crushed successful the onslaught and she had to beryllium placed successful a medically-induced coma.