BIBB COUNTY, Ala. ( WBRC ) - WBRC is learning more about a dog attack in Bibb County that left an elderly man with life-threatening injuries.

He, and his wife, are now filing a lawsuit against their neighbors, who they say, own the dogs.

DISCLAIMER: The following descriptions are graphic

According to the lawsuit, the attack happened Wednesday, Sept. 24 when the victim, an 81-year-old man, went to check his mail in the 2000 block of Ingate Road in Centerville.

That’s when the dogs, accused of being owned by the man’s neighbors, are said to have charged the man.

The lawsuit alleges multiple dogs, some described as “pitbulls,” mauled the elderly man’s forearms and legs, tearing flesh and muscle, leaving his limbs “shredded and mangled.”

The dogs also allegedly “viciously and violently

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