Giant rat blamed for deadly attacks on children in South Africa

The rat has been blamed for a series of attacks on South Africa's squalid townships.

The monster rodents are as big as cats are thought to have killed two babies in the townships, The giant rats grow up to three-foot including their tails - and have front teeth over an inch long.

Three-year-old Lunathi Dwadwa was killed as she slept in her parent's shack in a slum outside Cape Town this week.

Another baby girl died in a similar rat attack, on the same day, but this time in the Soweto township near Johannesburg.

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