Miami, FL – A 9-year-old American boy is receiving medical treatment in South Florida after he was seriously injured in a dog attack while visiting the Bahamas, according to the Royal Bahamas Police Force.<\/p>\n
The attack happened Tuesday morning on a beach in Alice Town on North Bimini, the Bahamian island chain located closest to the Florida coast. <\/p>\n
Police said the child had walked from the apartment where he was staying to collect sand when several dogs attacked him.<\/p>\n
According to investigators, an unidentified man witnessed the attack and chased the dogs away, allowing the child to escape. <\/p>\n
The boy then returned to the nearby apartment and alerted his mother, who contacted emergency responders.<\/p>\n
Officers and medical personnel responded to the scene and transported the child to a local hospital. <\/p>\n
Police said he suffered multiple bite wounds to his right thigh, right arm, left leg, face and head. <\/p>\n
Medical staff classified his injuries as life threatening and determined he required specialized treatment unavailable on the island.<\/p>\n
The child was airlifted to Miami aboard a U.S. Coast Guard aircraft with his father accompanying him during the flight.<\/p>\n
Video released by the U.S. Coast Guard Southeast shows Air Station Miami crews transferring the boy from the aircraft to a waiting ambulance before he was taken to a nearby hospital.<\/p>\n
Authorities have not released his identity or provided an update on his condition.<\/p>\n
The Royal Bahamas Police Force said investigators have identified the owner of the dogs involved in the attack.<\/p>\n
Officials said the owner is cooperating with the investigation and assisting authorities as they work to locate, secure and remove the animals involved in the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami, FL – A 9-year-old American boy is receiving medical treatment in South Florida after he was seriously…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[11751,14235,1539,14837,2353,9992,1550,2795,123,125,124,11831],"class_list":["post-360032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-american","tag-authorities","tag-bahamas","tag-boy","tag-child","tag-dog-attack","tag-dogs","tag-injuries","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360032","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=360032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}