WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT.

A nine-year-old girl has suffered horrific facial injuries after being mauled by a dog outside her family’s apartment in Hanceville, Alabama.

Delyla McCay was sitting with her sister on the steps outside their apartment on November 7, innocently waiting for their father, when a blue heeler being walked by another child suddenly lunged at her.

The dog latched onto Delyla’s face and refused to let go.

“The dog was walking down the steps and he bit me in the face and started shaking his head,” she told local news station WVTM 13 .

A teenager rushed in to fight the animal off, but moments later, the dog attacked again, biting Delyla on the buttock.

Her mother, Katie McCay, described the terrifying scene.

“Everybody was just screaming. Delyla actually wasn’t s

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