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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,,-7028593,00.html

Dog attack boy, 12, in hospital

Press Association
Saturday October 27, 2007 10:13 AM

A 12-year-old boy is in hospital after he was attacked by a dog, police
said.

The boy was bitten on both forearms by a Staffordshire bull terrier.

He was taken by ambulance to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Gateshead but
later transferred to the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle for a skin
graft operation.

Northumbria police were called to a house in Lincoln Street, Gateshead,
shortly after 7.30pm on Friday night and found the injured boy.

A second boy, aged 15, had also suffered a minor bite injury to his left
hip.

The parents of the older boy are believed to be the dog's owners and gave
permission for it to be destroyed.

Police took the dog to a branch of the People's Dispensary for Sick
Animals, where it was put down.