Durban - A security guard was mauled by two pitbull terriers who broke though a fence at a Durban house where he was responding to a burglary alarm, paramedics said on Tuesday.

ER24 spokesman Neil Noble said Bethuel Vilakazi had his ear partially ripped off and sustained several bite wounds in the Monday night attack in Durban's Crestholme suburb.

Andre du Preez, a director of Securelink, the security firm where Vilikazi works, said it was the second time in three months that one of the company's employees had been attacked by dogs at that property.

"We have suspended services to the property."

Du Preez said the dogs burst through the gate and mauled Vilakazi on the street side. Guards who were in the car started hooting and alerted a neighbour, who came to help Vilakazi.
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