Christiane Vadnais, dead after pit bull attack, laid to rest

Christiane Vadnais, the55-year-old woman who died after being attacked by a pit bull in herbackyard, was laid to rest on her family's plot inSaint-Cyrille-de-Wendover Saturday afternoon.

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Hundreds gathered at a church in the town, near Drummondville, to pay their respects to a woman many say was full of life and always smiling.

"Christiane enjoyed life and was a little ray of sunshine," her brother Gaston said.

Vadnais' family has been vocal about wanting a ban onpit bulls.In the days after her death on June 9, Brossard andQuebec City have done just that.

On the day of Vadnais' funeral, Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre announced plans to ban new pit bulls. The ban would apply to all 19 boroughs, including Pointe-aux-Trembles, where Vadnaiswas mauled.

"Thank you to those who dealt with it." Gaston Vadnais said. "We don't want Christiane to be a statistic."

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"We hope that people have started to become aware of concrete steps that can betaken so that such a thing never happens again. It's an atrocious death," he said.

Vadnais's sisterLyse wasvisibly grieving as she exited the church to speakto reporters. Shecould only bring herself to repeat acomforting phrase saidduring her sister's funeral.

"We have to give ourselves time to make sense of this senseless event."

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