Den Amstel resident attacked by pit bulls

Jul 13, 2023 News

Kaieteur News – A 69-year-old man of Den Amstel, West Coast Demerara is now nursing several wounds about his body after being viciously attacked by two pit bull dogs during his morning walk in his community on Wednesday.

Speaking with Kaieteur News yesterday, the man’s wife Sandra Reevers said her husband Lindon Reevers was attacked sometime around 04:45hrs while returning from his fitness walk in the vicinity of the Den Amstel Public Road.

According to the woman, her husband related that while at the public road two dogs came from across the road and launched their attack on him. “He said he started to holler for help, help but nobody was helping until a guy came up with a black vehicle and the guy then see another boy and instructed him to get a stick to hit the dogs in a bit to scare them off,” she said.

The wounds Lindon Reevers received after being attacked by two pit bull dogs on Wednesday morning.

She further related after learning of the incident about her husband, they immediately rushed him to the West Demerara Regional Hospital where he received treatment for his wounds. The woman said her husband who is currently in severe pain having received a number of stitches about his body. She said too that he lost a lot of blood as a result of the attack.

Mrs. Reevers said they have since reported the matter to the police and are waiting on a feedback on a way forward. “Something needs to be done in relation to the matter, because it is dangerous for persons who are living in the area and have to pass the dogs every day,” the woman lamented. She expressed that while her husband survived the attacked, there are children who would traverse the same route where the dogs are located to get onto the public road.

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