Brazil: pit bull bites boy, boy bites back

BEIJING, July 25 (Chinese medianet) -- Brazil's media

attention is focused on an 11-year-old boy who bit back when a pit bull bit

him.

Sao Paulo newspapers reported on Thursday that

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 so

hard that he lost a canine tooth.

Almeida tells the O Globo newspaper: "It is better to

lose a tooth than one's life."

Stonemasons working nearby chased the dog away before

it could attack again.

The Folha de S. Paulo newspaper said the boy received

four stitches at a local hospital while the dog was taken to a pound and may be

killed.

(Agencies)