{"id":370975,"date":"2026-03-29T06:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T06:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/370975\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T06:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T06:38:12","slug":"appeal-after-man-and-dog-attacked-in-bangor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/370975\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal after man and dog attacked in Bangor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are appealing for information after a man and his dog were attacked in Co Down.<\/p>\n<p>A charity said it was one of its volunteers and the animal targeted was a search and rescue dog.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives received a report at around 7:50pm on Friday night of an ongoing fight involving a number of youths and a man in the High Street area of Bangor.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival at the scene, officers saw a number of young people running off, most of them dressed in dark clothing.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Appeal for information following assault in Bangor. Details here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WSyloHBMIV\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/WSyloHBMIV<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6aysHVEsgA\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/6aysHVEsgA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Police Service NI (@PoliceServiceNI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PoliceServiceNI\/status\/2037906388479832202?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 28, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A PSNI spokesperson said: \u201cIt was reported that, following a verbal exchange with approximately 15 to 20 young people as he was walking up the street, the man was punched to the face multiple times by a number of the youths.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis dog was also kicked a number of times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact police on 101, quoting reference 1493 of 27\/03\/26.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on social media, the K9 Search and Rescue NI charity said that one of its members and a search and rescue dog had been \u201cviciously assaulted in Bangor last night whilst off duty and socialising\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The statement said: \u201cOur member has received treatment at A&amp;E, and the dog has been assessed by a vet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are grateful for the support shown across social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, we respectfully ask that the matter is left with the police as their investigation is ongoing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>                        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are appealing for information after a man and his dog were attacked in Co Down. A charity&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-370975","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}