Family dogs kill toddler

2008-08-14 10:08

Bangkok - Two Rottweiler dogs killed a 20-month-old girl and savaged her mother's legs in an unprovoked attack at their home in northeastern Thailand, police said.

Jintana Plu told police she had just taken her daughter, Nina, home from a birthday party when two of the family's three Rottweilers suddenly attacked the child, biting into her skull, police Lt Somneuk Jiemjungried said.

The large dogs then bit Jintana's legs as she tried to rescue her baby, Somneuk said.

Jintana, 42, said the dogs belonged to her Dutch husband, Somneuk said. One of the animals had been properly trained but the other two, which were new to the family, launched the attack, he said.

The mother was hospitalised in the northeastern city of Nakhon Ratchasima.

Somneuk said Jintana asked for the animals to be put down or given away.

- AP