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This is the moment a pitbull latches onto the leg of a teenage boy and refuses to let go of the bloody limb in a brutal dog attack that happened yesterday.

In the video, which is black and white CCTV, the lad is seen cycling down the road before coming to an abrupt halt and appearing to struggle with something out of the frame.

He looks distressed and has his mouth wide open as if screaming in pain.

The out-of-control dog then comes into view, with its jaws clamped onto the boy's leg, causing him to fall to the ground.

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Horrified witnesses then rush at the dog, with a woman seen running out of her house to kick the dog in the head and a man hitting the animal across the back with a stick.

The maddened dog refuses to stop the attack and the woman instead tries to pull the boy along the floor and into her home, with the dog still tearing at his legs.

More people then appear, throwing buckets of water over the pit bull and whipping it repeatedly with sticks.

The dog attack was filmed in the city of Jalandhar in the northern Indian state of Punjab and the footage has been widely shared on Twitter.

According to local media, Laksh Uppal was returning home on his bike after class when the dangerous dog attacked.

The incident lasted for several minutes and the young victim was said to have been taken to hospital with injuries to both legs.

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His parents have reportedly filed a complaint with the police.

It is unclear who owns the pit bull and what has happened to it since the reported attack.

The investigation is ongoing.

This dog attack comes after a puppy had its stomach ripped open by a pit bull which was running free.

And a pit bull who mauled a mum to death while she was having a seizure has been defended by the woman's daughter, who said the animal was only trying to help.