Update: Toddler mauled to death by dog
Paramedics worked for 40 minutes trying to resuscitate the three-year-old child.
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A three year old little girl has been killed and her six year old brother seriously injured after being attacked by a family dog in Locke Place, Mayville, on Saturday afternoon.
According to Rescue Care, paramedics were alerted and rushed to the scene just before 5pm. Paramedisc found the three year old child who had sustained critical injuries.
Advanced Life Support paramedics worked on the child but sadly she was in cardiac arrest. After forty minutes of resuscitation efforts the child was tragically declared dead at the scene. Her six year old brother, who was also attacked wa,s rushed to a nearby hospital before paramedics arrived. He had sustained serious injuries.
SAPS and SPCA were on the scene and will be investigating the incident further.
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