Newborn twin sisters were mauled to death by a family dog when their mother briefly left the room to talk to a neighbour. Mother Elaine Novais, 29, a council worker who had struggled to conceive for nine years, left her 26-day-old premature babies at their home in Piripá, in the northeastern state of Bahia, Brazil, last Tuesday, June 23. She had not been gone for long when she heard the girls Anne and Analú crying. She rushed back to their bedroom but it was too …