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A nine-month-old baby girl has died after being attacked by a pit bull as she sat in her bouncy chair.

Baby Liana Valiano was at her paternal grandmother's house in Miarmar, Florida when the attack occurred.

The baby's mother Brenda Villain dropped her daughter off on Wednesday morning and just hours later she received a phone call to say "something horrible" had happened to her little girl.

When she arrived at the scene, police told her Liana was dead and had been killed by the family dog.

Brenda, 24, was in tears as she spoke to reporters outside the house saying: "I am numb right now".

"She was the best thing to ever happen to me.

"Nobody wakes up in the morning and says that you're gonna lose somebody they love."

The young woman told of how she dropped Liana to her grandmother's on mornings where she didn't go to nursery.

The male dog was one of three in the home and was around three or four years old and had been with the family since he was a puppy.

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Police said they received a 911 call at 11.30am on Wednesday to report that a child was being attacked by a pet.

All three dogs were taken away by animal control but it's not known if the dog that attacked Liana will be put down.

Liana's mother Brenda said she didn't blame the breed of dog saying: "I still don't feel any type of way about a pit bull".