Dog mauls 18-month-old girl to death

POLICE described yesterday the “truly horrific” scene when a dog picked up an 18-month-old girl in its jaws and mauled her to death in front of her family, including her three-year-old sister.

The toddler suffered severe facial injuries when she was attacked by the dog, believed to be an American bulldog, at the house in Cotton Walk, Broadfield, Crawley, West Sussex, on Saturday at lunchtime.

She was rushed by ambulance to the East Surrey Hospital in Redhill, Surrey, where she was pronounced dead.