A young child has died after a dog attack in Christchurch on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Senior Sergeant Dan Overend said emergency services were called to Basingstoke Street in Aranui around 4:45pm after reports of a child sustaining serious dog bite injuries.<\/p>\n
“Upon arrival, emergency services located a young child in a critical condition.<\/p>\n
“Despite the immediate efforts of first responders, and a member of the household, the child sadly died at the scene.”<\/p>\n
Overend said the dog involved was known to the occupants of the address and lived at the property.<\/p>\n
“Police remain at the address carrying out a scene examination, and enquiries into the circumstances that led to this tragic incident are ongoing.<\/p>\n
“Occupants of the address are assisting police with enquiries.”<\/p>\n
St John said two ambulances, two rapid response units and one operations manager attended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young child has died after a dog attack in Christchurch on Friday afternoon. Senior Sergeant Dan Overend…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-569076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}