A 9-year-old American boy was airlifted from the Bahamas to South Florida after he was seriously injured in a dog attack on a beach in Bimini, according to the Royal Bahamas Police Force.<\/p>\n
The incident took place Tuesday morning in Alice Town in northern Bimini, a chain of islands that is the closest point in the Bahamas to the mainland U.S.<\/p>\n
Alice Town Police received a call from a woman just before 10:30 a.m. about a young boy who had been attacked by several dogs on the beach, according to Royal Bahamas Police. The child had walked to the beach from a nearby apartment where he was staying to collect sand when the dogs reportedly pounced, police said.<\/p>\n
An unidentified man intervened and chased the dogs away before leaving the area, according to police. The child was then able to return to the apartment and alert his mother.<\/p>\n
Officers rushed to the scene and found the boy had sustained multiple bite wounds. <\/p>\n
The child was taken to a local hospital and treated for wounds to his right thigh, right arm, left leg, face and head.\u00a0Local medical personnel classified the injuries as “life-threatening” and the child, accompanied by his father, was airlifted to Miami by the U.S. Coast Guard for additional treatment.<\/p>\n
Video shared by the U.S. Coast Guard Southeast shows Air Station Miami crews removing a gurney from the plane and taking it to a waiting ambulance. The boy, who has not been identified, was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment. His condition is not known.<\/p>\n
Authorities in the Bahamas have identified the owner of the dogs and said he is assisting officers in “locating, securing and removing the animals.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 9-year-old American boy was airlifted from the Bahamas to South Florida after he was seriously injured in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1539,123,125,124],"class_list":["post-357710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-bahamas","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357710","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=357710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}