/ 15 March 2000

PITBULL ATTACK VICTIM DIES

KWAZULU-NATAL mother Janet Mngadi has died of heart failure in Durban’s King Edward hospital. The 40-year old domestic worker was savaged by her employer’s pitbull terriers on Friday. She had to have both her arms amputated in emergency surgery after the attack and also sustained severe facial injuries. The attack took place at a home in Amanzimtoti, where she had started working three days before as a domestic worker for policeman Sergeant Deon de Welzim. Mngadi was the sole breadwinner in her family as her husband is unable to work due to medical reasons. Mngadi leaves behind five children aged between 21 and 10.

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