Orpington: Man ‘acted on instinct’ to save children in dog attack

Mr Okorocha said after he saw the girl being bitten, “a lot of adrenaline kicked in” and he ran over to pick her up to get her away from them.

Two more dogs came out, he said, and a young boy was also being bitten.

“I grabbed the little girl and carried her with one arm and then I tried to grab the little boy as the dogs started focusing on him,” he said.

“What was going through my head is ‘I have to get this girl or else it will be critical’.”

He told BBC London the dogs then returned their attention to the girl in his arms so he wanted to get her to safety and call the police.

“I got the girl inside my house and got her secured safely and waited for a little bit for the dogs to disperse,” he added.

Following this, he went to check on the boy but he had been taken to safety into a car.

Mr Okorocha said the children had been left shaken up and there was “blood everywhere” with scratches on them.