The 3-year-old girl attacked on the Gold Coast suffered head and neck injuries
A Queensland toddler has been taken to hospital after being brutally attacked by a dog in the state’s latest tragedy.
Emergency services were called to the house at Yatala on the Gold Coast at 5.20pm on Wednesday after the three-year-old girl suffered head and neck injuries, with four including three German shepherds and a French clam injured. Arrest board.
It is believed the mother and girl moved to the child’s grandmother’s house from Melbourne in recent months, Courier Mail reported, with three of the homes belonging to the grandmother.
The three-year-old girl remained at Queensland Children’s Hospital overnight, with Queensland Children’s Health confirming to Yahoo News Australia this morning that she was in a “serious but stable condition”.
The mother was also said to have been taken to the hospital.
Gọi thú cưng là “chó ngoan”, hàng xóm Kurt Poole đã rất ngạc nhiên trước cuộc tấn công vào đứa trẻ.
“They have never done anything bad to us,” he told the Courier Mail. “We play with them all the time, we come down here to work. They are happy.”
“[The child’s grandmother is probably] right next to me. She just wanted it all to end and never happen.”
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The horrific dog attack was one of three from last night, with a boy transported to Logan Hospital with head injuries, and a woman in her 30s taken to Townsville Hospital with head injuries. foot. Both are in stable condition.
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Earlier this week a six-year-old girl, Laquarna Chapman Palmer, was pulled off a fence by a dog before it attacked her near Brisbane in a horrific end to the Easter long weekend. She was playing on a fence when a neighbour’s bull mastiff pulled her off before the dog dragged her into a yard where she was mauled by both the neighbour’s mastiffs.
Queensland Ambulance Service has labelled the slew of recent dog attacks against children “concerning”.
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