By Alice Philipson
10:14AM GMT 07 Mar 2013
Girl bitten by foot-long rat as she slept
A girl woke up screaming, covered in blood after a foot-long rat crawled into her bed and bit her.
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Mrs Williams, 35, said: ?She was crying and said a big brown animal had bitten her.
?She said she woke up after feeling something crawling on her leg and when she moved it bit her.
?We could see from the blood on her face and arm that something had happened, so my husband Darren went to get our dog Hattie to see if it could find anything.
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The attack comes just months after a rat bit a 16-month-old girl in Camden as she lay in bed.
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There have also been several fox attacks on children in recent months. In February, a four-week-old baby boy was attacked by a fox in his south-east London home ...
