A young child has died after being attacked by a dog in the Christchurch suburb of Aranui yesterday. <\/p>\n
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
A “young child” was found in a critical condition at the scene. <\/p>\n
“Despite the immediate efforts of first responders and a member of the household, the child sadly died at the scene,” Detective Senior Sergeant Dan Overend said. <\/p>\n
Overend said the dog involved was known to the occupants of the address and lived there.<\/p>\n
In an update this afternoon, police said the animal was removed from the address, and police were in contact with Council Animal Management. <\/p>\n
Police remained at the scene last night as investigators carried out a scene examination. <\/p>\n
The investigation continued into this morning, and police were speaking to the occupants of the home as well as providing them with support.<\/p>\n
“Police extend their condolences to the child’s family and loved ones at this extremely difficult time and ask that their privacy be respected.” <\/p>\n
Christchurch East MP Reuben Davidson told RNZ the incident was a tragedy for both the family and the wider community.<\/p>\n
Local Burwood Ward councillor Kelly Barber told RNZ she hoped it would serve as a learning opportunity to prevent future incidents. <\/p>\n
“It’s a very sad situation, and my first thoughts were with the family and how devastated they must be at the loss of their child. I also hope there is something we can learn from the ongoing police investigation that reduces the likelihood of this ever happening again,” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young child has died after being attacked by a dog in the Christchurch suburb of Aranui yesterday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[158,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-569781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-christchurch-canterbury","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569781","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=569781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}