A five-month-old has died in Osun State after a dog attack with her month also wounded.
While narrating the Wednesday incident, the nursing mother Nafisat Oyegbade said she was on her way to get drugs for herself and the ailing child at a pharmacy close to her residence in Gaa Fulani at Halleluyah Estate Osogbo when one dog attacked her from behind, seized and killed her baby.
Nafisat said the dog injured her while trying to rescue the baby before people came to rescue her.
She is therefore appealing to the Osun State Government and the Police to bring the owner of the dog to justice.
A resident Dayo Adeyemo said community leaders would meet to decide on what actions to take on the matter.
The police spokesperson in Osun Yemisi Opalola also confirmed the incident, adding that the owner of the dog has been arrested and would be prosecuted.
Credit: Channels Television
