FAMILY TRAGEDY

Toddler savaged to death by rottweilers
PRASIT TANGPRASERT
NAKHON RATCHASIMA : Two rottweilers attacked and killed a young girl in Muang district in the early hours of yesterday. The mother of the girl was also injured trying to fight off the dogs to save her daughter.
The attack took place at the family home in Mahachai-Udomporn community in Payapthit, Muang district. The house is in an enclosed area on one rai of land.
Police found blood stains on the ground near the house gate.
Romklao Plu, or Nong Nina, aged 20 months, was savaged around the neck, chest, arms and legs.
Her body was sent to Maharaj Nakhon Ratchasima hospital for an autopsy.
Jintana Plu, 42, the girl's mother, was bitten on her left leg.
Mrs Jintana told police her husband, a Dutchman, bought the house but rarely stayed there. He spent most of his time in the Netherlands on business. She lived with her mother and her young daughter.
From left: Romklao Plu, or Nong Nina, the 20-month-old girl killed by two rottweilers yesterday, with her mother at her home in Nakhon Ratchasima; the shrouded body of the girl; and one of the rottweilers at the house. — PRASIT TANGPRASERT
The family had three rottweilers. The two dogs that attacked them were males, both two years old, and were recently bought from a breeding farm, Mrs Jintana said. The other was a four-year-old female. It was bought long before the two new dogs and was tame, she said.
She and Nong Nina had returned from a birthday party. She stepped out of her car with her daughter in her arms and walked to the house gate to open it.
She put the girl down and opened the gate and the two male rottweilers charged at her daughter, snatched the girl away and attacked her.
Mrs Jintana screamed for help and tried to fight the dogs off _ she even bit them _ to save her daughter.
Somsong Phanviset, 56, Mrs Jintana's mother, said she heard the call for help and went to her aid. She used a stick to beat and drive away the dogs, whisked the girl into the house and locked the door.
Mrs Somsong said the family was aware that a rottweiler is fierce and dangerous by nature.
They kept the dogs to guard the house, which had been burgled several times.
The dogs were kept in a cage and let out at night.
The two newly-acquired dogs had not received proper training and did not always obey commands. Mrs Somsong said she will consider giving the three dogs away to police or the military.
Funeral rites are being held for Nong Nina at Wat Sutthajinda Woraviharn in downtown Nakhon Ratchasima.
Nattiwat Sinluea, president of the Thai Rottweiler Club, warned against keeping rottweilers in a house where there are children. He said their breeding should be regulated.
''Other kinds of dogs attack people more often than rottweilers. But rottweilers' attacks are violent and deadly, and are often in the news,'' he said.

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