A scrapyard owner was in hospital in Bradford today after being savaged by his two dogs.

The Japanese Akita fighting dogs escaped twice within hours from CarNation, in Essex Street, where they are used as guard dogs.

Their owner Parvaz Mohammed Khan, 27, was taken to Bradford Royal Infirmary suffering from bites after the dogs turned on him in Bowling Back Lane, yesterday while he took them for a walk.

He now faces a caution from Bradford Dog Warden Service.

And the attack comes just a week after an Akita cross dog savaged 10-year-old Jolene Lamont from Bradford Moor who needed 30 stitches in her arm.

Eye witnesses to yesterday's attack described how they saw Mr Khan lying in the road being attacked by the animals which were originally bred as hunting dogs.

A woman who lives in the street and asked not to be named said: "He was lying on the floor screaming 'Get them off me, get them off me'.

"Then a man ran down the street with a shovel and a gardening fork and started braying them. If he hadn't, they wouldn't have got off the chap."

And passing motorist John Greenwood said: "They were ripping this guy to bits - one on his shoulder and the other on his leg.

"He had his hands round the throat of the one biting at his shoulder to stop it getting his neck so he couldn't do anything about the other one.

"Eventually some dustman came in a wagon and started sounding the horn and the dogs ran off."

The dogs were taken away by police but later claimed on Mr Khan's behalf and taken back to the yard.

But within hours - at 2.30am - the police were called to the area by a security guard who said he was trapped in his hut by the two dogs which had escaped again.

Today the dogs were being held by the dog warden service but Mr Khan's brother Faz, who co-manages CarNation, said that they had had the dogs for more than a year and they had never attacked anyone before. "If we don't get them back we will make a fuss because they're not dangerous dogs."

Mike Hydes, manager of Electrical Cabinets in Bradford, said that the dogs had escaped into their workshop earlier in the day before they attacked Mr Khan. "They were really friendly and we were stroking them," he said.

But Barry Crook, landlord of the nearby Napoleon pub in Wakefield Road, said one of the Akitas had attacked his spaniel a few weeks ago. "They're vicious dogs," he added.

Bradford Council's Dog Warden Service manager Terry Singh said the owner of the Akitas would be cautioned. "I will be visiting the scrapyard to make sure it complies with the Guard Dogs Act 1975 and the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991."

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