FREE newsletter is just champion! Get the biggest and brightest stories sent straight to your inbox Newborn twin sisters were mauled to death by a family dog after their mother left the room to talk to a neighbour.
The "jealous" Labrador and American foxhound cross attacked the 26-day-old premature babies at their home in the Bahia region of Brazil last Tuesday.
Devastated mum Elaine Novais, 29, rushed to help her babies after hearing their cries from her bedroom, but it was too late to save them.She and her husband Regis, 32, had been trying for nine years to have children.
Elaine, a council worker in the village of Piripá, pulled the animal away from the twins but it had already inflicted fatal damage on their abdomens.
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