{"id":569292,"date":"2026-08-14T23:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T23:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/569292\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T23:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T23:50:10","slug":"young-child-dies-following-dog-attack-in-christchurch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/569292\/","title":{"rendered":"Young child dies following dog attack in Christchurch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A young child has died after being attacked by a dog in the Christchurch suburb of Aranui yesterday. <\/p>\n<p>According to police, emergency services were called to an address on Basingstoke Street at around 4.45pm following reports a child had sustained dog bite injuries.  <\/p>\n<p>A &#8220;young child&#8221; was found in a critical condition at the scene.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Despite the immediate efforts of first responders and a member of the household, the child sadly died at the scene,&#8221; Detective Senior Sergeant Dan Overend said. <\/p>\n<p>Overend said the dog involved was known to the occupants of the address and lived there. <\/p>\n<p>Police remained at the scene last night as investigators carried out a scene examination. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Enquiries into the circumstances that led to this tragic incident are ongoing,&#8221; Overend said.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Occupants of the address are assisting police with enquiries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police extend their condolences to the child&#8217;s family and loved ones at this extremely difficult time and ask that their privacy be respected.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young child has died after being attacked by a dog in the Christchurch suburb of Aranui yesterday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[158,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-569292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-christchurch-canterbury","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\/569292","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=569292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}