Momarak Ali, 63, of Lot 46 Austin Street, Campbellville, Georgetown, was mauled by two pit bulls early on Monday morning, resulting in severe injury to both arms. Both of Ali’s arms were severely mangled due to the viciousness of the attack.
Ali is said to be recovering well at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
Mobarak Ali is recovering after surgery on his arms to repair tissue damage
Ali was on his way to the Kitty mosque to perform the first prayer of the day when he was attacked. Ali’s wife, Khairoon, told Guyana Times International that her husband is still “in a state of shock”.
She said that early Monday morning, she heard her husband screaming and after running outside she was overcome at the sight of her husband lying on the ground covered in blood.
Two neighbours lifted her husband, and another took both Khairoon and her husband to Georgetown Public Hospital. The woman stated that her husband was on his way to prayers early in the morning when the two dogs came out of a yard and attacked him. “He told me they were so strong, they just pulled him down; he tried to get up but they kept pulling him down,” Khairoon said.
He was freed when neighbours came out with pieces of wood and beat the dogs off.
At the hospital, doctors told Khairoon that her husband had lost a lot of blood. She said that doctors then took him in to surgery.
“His left arm is totally destroyed… all his muscles are showing and flesh is missing,” she told this publication.
Khairoon made her first complaint to the police at the police outpost in the hospital and officers were dispatched to investigate. However, the woman related; “They went down and nothing – they didn’t take away the owner or the dogs.”
After her initial complaint on Monday morning, Ali said the owner of the dogs, who goes by the name Alex, came to speak with her, begging her not to make a complaint. After realising that the police failed to remove the dogs from the neighbourhood, Ali went to the Kitty Station after visiting her husband to make an official complaint.
“I want those dogs destroyed,” Khairoon declared, relating that this is not the first time the dogs have shown aggressive behaviour, “my neighbours said the dogs have killed three dogs before this, they are dangerous”. Ali noted that her husband was responsive when he came out of surgery, but she was not sure when he would be discharged.
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