Two and a half year old girl bitten by a pit bull inside an apartment in via Picardi 124, in Sesto San Giovanni (Milan) .

This afternoon the little girl was playing with her twin sister when the dog attacked her . The other little girl was unharmed.

The victim was taken by air ambulance to Bergamo hospital, his condition is very serious .

The 25-year-old aunt , who intervened to save her nieces from the attack, engaged in a fight with the animal, suffering deep wounds to her hands and then, after locking the girls in a room, ran onto the balcony and climbed onto the pipe of gas to escape the pit bull's fury . She was taken to Niguarda under yellow code.

The firefighters, the local police, 118 and the ATS were on site. The pit bull was locked up in a kennel .

(Unioneonline/L)

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