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Four bitten as dog goes on attack Dog killed after attacking child
(about 4 hours later)
A pet dog has bitten four people in south London after escaping through a hole in a garden fence. Terrified residents have told how a savage dog dragged an 18-month-old baby along before a bus driver intervened.
The bull terrier bit a child on the leg in Mitcham before attacking a bus driver. It then bit a 50-year-old woman and bit a fourth person on the face. The dog, called Asbo, bit four people in Mitcham, south London, on Wednesday before being shot dead by police.
The dog was found two hours later by a police helicopter team and dog handlers. The animal was shot dead by firearms officers. The bull terrier, which had escaped from a garden, bit the child before attacking the bus driver. It then bit a 50-year-old woman and a fourth person.
A woman, 29, was arrested over having a dog dangerously out of control. A woman, 29, was arrested for having a dog dangerously out of control. The bite victims were taken to hospital.
She was taken to a south London police station. Jackie Haggis, a 38-year-old foster carer from Tavistock Crescent, Mitcham, witnessed the attack from her house, which was only 15 yards away.
The child, bus driver and fourth bite victim were treated in hospital. She said: "I had just done the vacuuming and I sat on the bed with the laptop and heard a load of noise outside.
"The noise became louder and turned into screaming and shouting, and I looked out of the window and saw a group of men on the grass outside my window.
It was a crazy, mad dog. It wanted to attack everything and everyone Eyewitness Oliver Davis
"Then I saw the dog with a baby in its mouth. It dragged the baby about 60 yards across the green.
"The men were trying to hit the dog with a fire extinguisher from a bus and with sticks but it wouldn't let go.
"Eventually a man came on to the green in a pickup truck and tried to run the dog over but it didn't succeed.
"The dog went berserk and started chasing the man in the truck down the road.
"It was going absolutely wild."
She added: "We heard about five shots about two hours later, which was when the dog was killed."
Another eyewitness, Oliver Davis, a martial arts teacher from Yorkshire Road, Mitcham, said: "As I was coming across the road with my two children I saw the dog dragging the child across the grass on the common.
"There were four or five people trying to help but the dog was just turning on them.
"It was a crazy, mad dog. It wanted to attack everything and everyone."