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A woman who had struggled for 9 good years to conceive has suffered a setback after her 26-day-old twins were mauled to death by a dog as she stepped out briefly to talk to her neighbour.

Dog kills 26-day-old twins as mother who’d been childless for 9 years leaves her room to see neighbour | Pulse Ghana

Andreas Kamasah

<p><a href="https://www.pulse.com.gh/filla/some-doctors-took-off-her-womb-after-delivery-i-dont-have-a-womb-nana-yaa-brefo/8k9ksjz">Reports say Elaine Novais, 29,&nbsp;a council worker </a>left her premature babies at their home in&nbsp;Piripá, in the northeastern state of Bahia,&nbsp;Brazil, on Tuesday, June 23.</p>

<p>She had not been gone for long when she heard the&nbsp;girls&nbsp;Anne and Analú crying but by the time she rushed back to their bedroom a huge harm had been caused.</p>

Dog kills 26-day-old twins as mother who’d been childless for 9 years leaves her room to see neighbour

<p>The&nbsp;Labrador and American foxhound cross had brutally attacked the girls.&nbsp;Mrs Novais pulled the jealous dog away from the twins, but it had already inflicted fatal damage on their abdomens.&nbsp;</p>

<p>A nurse who lived nearby performed first aid on the twins. One died instantly from her injuries and the other&nbsp;later died at&nbsp;Maria Pedreira Barbosa Municipal Hospital after going into cardiac arrest.</p>

<p>The devastated mother reportedly collapsed from shock after the death of her babies and she had to be resuscitated at the hospital.&nbsp;Mrs Novais and her husband Regis, 32, had been childless for almost a decade before she eventually conceived.</p>

<p>The dog, described as "docile", is believed to have become jealous after not receiving as much attention since the birth of the babies.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

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<p>A family member claimed the dog "was left out in a way, and it no longer had the attention and affection of its owners provided before", reports&nbsp;The Sun.</p>

<p>“That could have caused some kind of jealousy and led the dog to attack the children."</p>

<p>Anne and Analú died one day before their due date, having arrived a month early via cesarean section.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Police are investigating the deaths, but are yet to take testimonies from the devastated parents.&nbsp;</p>

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