A 3-year-old girl was injured in a terrifying attack by a pit bull that “came out of nowhere’’ outside a Queens supermarket on Saturday, witnesses and police told The Post.
She was saved by a heroic passer-by who smashed the canine with a shopping cart.
“It was a big, terrible-looking pit bull. It wasn’t on a leash. The dog jumped and latched onto the baby’s leg and didn’t let go for five minutes,” witness Dwight Chang said.
“The baby was screaming. The mother was screaming. The mom never let go of the baby.”
Several men tried to pull the dog off, “but it wouldn’t let go,’’ said Chang, a construction worker.
The shocking attack took place at Merrick and Springfield boulevards in Laurelton.
“The dog only let go after a large man picked up a shopping cart and hit the dog over the back,” Chang said.
Another man grabbed the animal and tossed it into a garbage can — with the shopping cart on top to hold it down until authorities arrived and subdued it.
School-bus driver Belinda Barnett saw the aftermath of the attack.
“There was blood all over the ground,” she said.
The child was treated for minor injuries at a hospital.