PLYMOUTH, Minn. — A father is recounting a vicious pit bull attack he suffered in front of his home in Plymouth this week.
Emil Mammadov had pieces of his face torn off and needed stitches all over his body after two of his neighbor’s dogs jumped him Monday around midnight.
Mammadov is Azerbaijani and doesn’t speak much English, so his daughter, Fatima Mammadova, translated for him when he spoke to WCCO.
“The dogs were all aiming at his neck, and he just didn’t care much about the rest of his body,” Fatima Mammadova said. “He was trying to protect his neck. And he knows that those dogs are very aggressive.”
Mammadov’s wife, Ilaha Mammadova, and his daughter ran outside when they heard his agony.
“He was screaming from like the last bits from his lungs that he had left, like all his power, to tell [my mother and sister] to stay away also from the dogs,” Fatima Mammadova said.
They turned on some lights, and the dogs ran off.