Girl, 10, suffered serious injuries after dog attacked in Victoria’s southeast

NEIGHBOURS have revealed the devastating injuries suffered by as 10-year-old Victorian girl when she was mauled by a dog overnight.

NEIGHBOURS have saved the life of a 10-year-old girl in Melbourne after she was mauled by a dog while her parents were allegedly at the gym.

Jimmy Baird was watching television at home with his wife in suburban Berwick, in Victoria’s southeast, on Sunday night when he heard screaming from next door.

“I heard screaming,” he told 3AW on Monday morning. He said he saw a “massive frothing head coming through the door” when he went to inspect.

“It was out of control, the dog was going berserk. We distracted the dog while we got the girl out.”

Mr Baird and another man went around the side of the house to get the dog’s attention while the girl escaped. He said she likely wouldn’t be alive if they hadn’t got there when they did.

“I’m glad we were there because the young girl probably wouldn’t have survived,” Mr Baird said.

His wife, Kerrie, told the Herald Sun the victim was “covered in blood” and had “bite and puncture marks all over her body”.

Hero neighbours Jimmy and Kerrie Baird.

“Her sister was saying the dog threw her up in the air, like a rag doll,” Ms Baird said.

The child suffered serious injuries including bites and lacerations and is believed to have lost an ear in the attack. She was taken to the Royal Melbourne Hospital where she remains in a serious condition.

The Australian is reporting the girl’s parents were allegedly at the gym at the time the attack took place.

Local council rangers have seized the dog.

The dog is believed to be a bull-mastiff, a large breed of dog linked to the English mastiff and the English bulldog.

The attack comes just a day after a toddler was mauled to death by a rottweiler. Kamillah Jones was in a stroller in the NSW town of Inverell on Saturday when a rottweiler attacked her.

She was raced to Inverell District Hospital but died before she got there.

Inverell local Mindy Davis was at the hospital when she heard Kamillah’s parents screaming with grief.

Kamillah Jones died on Saturday after being attacked in her stroller. Picture: GoFundMe

“We were right next to it all in the emergency ward when they tried tirelessly to resuscitate her,” she wrote on Facebook.

“It was heartbreaking hearing the parents screaming when she passed away.”

Kamillah’s aunt Ida Boney also took to Facebook yesterday, describing the events that led up to Saturday’s heartbreaking tragedy.

“She was actually being walked by her mother in a pram on the way to her granny’s house just one block away,” Ms Boney wrote.

“There are no words to describe a scene where a mother is fighting with every ounce of her being to save her baby girl.

“Our family have lost our baby girl who never got a chance to live her life.”

A GoFundMe page for the family was set up on Saturday to help with funeral expenses and had last night raised $2000 of its $6000 goal.

— with AAP