Giant rats as big as cats have killed and eaten two babies in separate attacks in South Africa's squalid townships this week.
Lunathi Dwadwa, three, was killed as she slept in her parent's shack in the Khayelitsha slum outside Cape Town and another girl was killed in Soweto township near Johannesburg the same day.
Little Lunathi was sleeping on a makeshift bed on the floor of her family's breeze block and corrugated iron home on Sunday night when she died. Her puzzled parents didn't even hear her scream.
The deaths appear to be part of a spate of deadly rat attacks in the country.
Last month, 77-year-old grandmother Nomathemba Joyi died after giant rats chewed off the right side of her face.
Posted: at 3-06-2011 06:53 PM (13 years ago) | Upcoming
maryclaret at 3-06-2011 07:01 PM (13 years ago) (f)
This is serious. Maybe the solution would be to clean up the area..afterall, it is a slum. Rats love dirty places. So sad
Ada Mbaise
Posted: at 3-06-2011 07:01 PM (13 years ago) | Gistmaniac