FWD: Boy, nine, mauled by dog undergoes eight-hour surgery

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Monday March 21, 2005

Boy, nine, mauled by dog undergoes eight-hour surgery

 

 

PUTRAJAYA: A nine-year-old boy had to undergo an eight-hour long surgical

operation after he was mauled by a large dog, believed to be a Rottweiler, near

his house in Taman Putra Perdana, Puchong, on Friday.

 

Mohd Hazman Khan Sheikh Zaini received some 140 stitches to his head and

another 40 to his body.

 

According to his mother, who declined to be named, Mohd Hazman was walking to a

nearby mosque with his two cousins for Friday prayers when the incident

occurred.

 

“He was walking near a neighbour’s house when the dog pounced on him. His

cousins ran back and alerted me. I rushed to the scene to find him being mauled

by the dog.

 

“I threw stones at the dog but it then tried to bite me. Another neighbour had

to beat it off with a stick,” she said here yesterday.

 

The boy was rushed by his parents to the Putrajaya Hospital to get treatment

for his injuries, including lacerations and bite marks on the right side of his

face. His condition has now stabilised.

 

The dog's owner was believed

 

to have been out during the incident.

 

Mohd Hazman’s mother said the owner had come to their house and apologised to

them over the incident.

 

A police report has been lodged.

 

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