A four-year old boy mauled to death by two pitbulls

Ngwaabe – Milani Keke, 4, was attacked by two pitbulls when playing rugby with his friends in Gululethu, on Sunday.

Milani tried to retrieve a ball from the next yard when he was mauled to death two dogs.

Milani’s family is traumatised and struggling to make peace with what happened to their child.

The dogs are currently in the care of the SPCA whilst investigations continue.

The traumatised mother of the boy, Nothemba Keke, told Cape Times she was inside when the incident occurred.

“I was here at home when I heard the screams of my daughter crying ‘Mama come out, Milani is being attacked by dogs.’ I ran outside and one was attacking him from the back of his skull while the other barked and ran around him. I ran and tried to jump the fence to save him, but a neighbour grabbed me and pulled me back,” said Milani’s Mother.

The deceased’s mother said the family was in an unreserved shock about the attack.

“I don’t like to talk about it. Even now I don’t feel like talking; we are distraught and we are still shock,” she added.

Police spokesperson Sergeant Noloyiso Rwexana said police were busy investigating the attack, though no arrest has been made.

“A death inquest case has been opened for investigation by Gugulethu police after a 4-year-old boy died at NY 50 after he was attacked by two dogs inside the yard while he was fetching a ball,” said Rwexana.

He added that, “the circumstances surrounding this incident are being investigated by the police, with no arrests so far.”

The ward councillor Sharon Manata said the community of Guguluthi emerged infuriated about this for the mere fact that the boy didn’t go to the yard of the pitbulls, he was playing in his home, his only crime was going to fetch the ball as the pitbulls dragged him from the fence.

“Some people are very angry. You ask yourself, in tbese four-roomed houses that we have what makes a person have such vicious dogs?

“We don’t have big yards, this innocent child was just playing in the yard of his home and by mistake the ball fell in the next door yard.

“This child was not even in the yard of these dogs, but they dragged him from the fence. We are crying with the family, crying with the mother who is traumatised by seeing her child being mauled by the dogs. Truly as a community we are shattered,” said the ward councillor.

Spokesperson of Cape of Good Hope SPCA, Belinda Abrahams confirmed that the two dogs are in their extensive care, and the decusion of what to do with them would emanate from the investigations conducted by law enforcement.

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