Date:26/07/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/07/26/stories/2008072652042000.htm

International

Brazilian boy bites dog, loses tooth

SAO PAULO: An 11-year-old boy is in the news in Brazil after sinking his teeth into the neck of a dog that attacked him.

Gabriel Almeida was playing in his uncle’s backyard in the city of Belo Horizonte when a pit bull named Tita lunged at him and bit him in the left arm. Almeida grabbed the dog by the neck and bit back — biting so hard that he lost a canine tooth. — AP