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A one-year-old boy was taken to hospital with facial injuries after a dog bit his face while he sat in a pushchair, police have said.<\/p>\n

The dog, believed to be a German Shepherd<\/a>, is alleged to have lunged towards the boy on Shirley Precinct, a local shopping centre, in Southampton<\/a>, at around 3:20pm on 21 August.<\/p>\n

The one-year-old suffered two small puncture wounds and grazing to his face, Hampshire and Isle of White Constabulary said. <\/p>\n

Police have now shared an image of a woman they want to speak with in connection with the incident. <\/p>\n

The woman is described by police as white, 5ft 7ins tall, and of large build<\/p>\n

\"TheThe woman was seen with a large dog believed to be a German Shepherd (Southampton Police)<\/p>\n

The dog, wearing a mesh-style muzzle, is believed to be a German Shepherd. <\/p>\n

\u201cSince this was reported to us, officers have been carrying out enquiries and are working to establish the exact circumstances surrounding the incident,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are hoping to speak with a woman (pictured) who may have information which could help with our enquiries.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last month, a man appeared in court accused of manslaughter after his German Shepherd fatally bit a man on a footpath in Wakefield following an argument about \u201cright of way\u201d.<\/p>\n

Emergency services were called to reports of an altercation on the old train line footpath off Blacker Lane in the Calder Grove area on Saturday 15 August.<\/p>\n

James Judge, 55, was bitten by a dog and taken to hospital in a critical condition but died shortly after 7pm. His family is being supported by specially trained officers.<\/p>\n

Lee Ellis, 55, has been charged with manslaughter and being in charge of a dog dangerously out of control, causing injury resulting in death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-777346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}