Girl mauled by rottweiller dogs

A SCHOOLGIRL has been seriously injured in an attack by two rottweillers.

Rhianna Kidd was attacked by the dogs while riding her bicycle in Dundee yesterday.

Tayside Police said they had charged a 33-year-old woman in connection with the incident.

The primary school pupil was being treated for a fractured jaw today and doctors say she will need plastic surgery.

Irene Grady, the girl's grandmother, saw the dogs set upon her granddaughter as the youngster pedalled towards her home in Dryburgh Street. She had been dropped off by her father moments earlier.

She said: "One started biting her arms while the other went for her legs. Someone in a car pumped their horn and they stopped, but when she got up they just knocked her back down.

"When I got to her I didn't know what to do. I just kept repeating to the dogs 'be good, be good'.

"They let her go and I managed to get her to the house. Once we were inside, the rottweilers were peering in the living-room window. We were so scared."

The grandmother said Rhianna had bites at the back of her ears and under her chin.

A spokesman for Tayside Police said: "The woman has been charged under section three of the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 for failing to keep the dogs under control and a full report will be submitted to the procurator fiscal."