Terrified girl 'couldn't stop crying' after out-of-control dog bit teenager and delivery driver outside home

08.08.2022 - 15:57 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk

A dad has told how his daughter 'couldn't stop crying' after armed police shot dead an out-of-control dog which attacked two people outside their home. The 'pitbull' was killed after it mauled a teenage girl and pizza delivery driver on Morley Street, Rochdale, on Friday night.

The dad said: "It was brutal, horrible. My daughter was upstairs. She couldn't stop crying, she was so scared.

"There were about 20 police officers. They blocked off the road.

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"At first I think they shot with him with a Taser. Then I heard another shot. It ran down the street trying to get in all the houses. He was limping. Then they shot him on the doorstep.

"It was so loud. You could still smell the gunpowder about half an hour later."

Neighbours say the aggressive animal had been roaming the street for a number of hours before it attacked the girl as she walked along the pavement with two friends. CCTV footage seen by the M.E.N. shows the dog lunge for the teenager moments after she appeared to bend down to stroke it.

As she turned and ran, the dog attacked her again, causing her to fall to the pavement. Witnesses said she suffered bite wounds to her arm and leg. The dog then attacked a pizza delivery driver as he got out of his car, neighbours said.

After being bit on the calf he ran into a house. After spending around 45 minutes hiding under a caravan on the street the dog was shot dead on the doorstep of a terraced house around 20 yards away from where the attacks took place.

One neighbour, who had just pulled up in his car when the first attack took place, said: "The police told me it was an American pit bull.

"I've never