{"id":357053,"date":"2026-07-30T02:13:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T02:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/357053\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T02:13:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T02:13:22","slug":"coast-guard-evacuates-9-year-old-boy-to-miami-after-dog-attack-in-the-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/357053\/","title":{"rendered":"Coast Guard evacuates 9-year-old boy to Miami after dog attack in the Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The U.S. Coast Guard evacuated a 9-year-old boy from the Bahamas after he was repeatedly attacked by several dogs on the beach Tuesday, the agency and Royal Bahamas Police Force said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The boy was collecting sand outside a business in Bimini around 10 a.m. when the dogs set upon him, police said, biting his face, right thigh, right arm and his head.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A man who witnessed the attack chased the dogs off, and the boy, who is a U.S. citizen, was able to get back to the apartment where he and his mother were staying, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Paramedics rushed him to the Bimini Community Clinic, where doctors treating him concluded his injuries were serious and &#8220;potentially life-threatening,&#8221; police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Coast Guard HC-144 Ocean Sentry crew flew the boy to Air Station Miami in Opa-Locka at noon, police and the Coast Guard said. A Miami-Dade Fire Rescue ambulance took the boy to the Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital, the department said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">His condition was not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to Bahamian police, officers found the dogs&#8217; owner. The agency said he is assisting officers in &#8220;locating, securing and removing the animals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The incident remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.S. Coast Guard evacuated a 9-year-old boy from the Bahamas after he was repeatedly attacked by several&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1539,145708,1993,145709,123,125,124,145707],"class_list":["post-357053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-bahamas","tag-bimini-community-clinic","tag-coast-guard","tag-dogs-on-the-beach","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-royal-bahamas-police-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}