India, Nov. 25 -- A child screaming while clutching his bleeding head, and a man picking up his severed ear off the street -these horrific scenes played out in northwest Delhi's Prem Nagar area, where a six-year-old boy was mauled by a pitbull.

For the boy, the Sunday afternoon began like any other - playing catch with his elder brother in the crammed lanes outside his house in Prem Nagar, until a missed catch unleashed a nightmare.

The CCTV camera in the area captured the brutality of the incident as it unfolded -- the boy innocently chasing the ball when the neighbour's pet pitbull lunged at him, sinking its teeth into his head and tearing off his ear. The boy had to be pulled from the canine's jaws by two people.

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