‘Several’ people were reportedly attacked by the pet dog in a nearby home
‘Several’ people were reportedly attacked by the pet dog in a nearby home(Image: ASP)
People were reportedly ‘covered in blood’ after two adults and a baby were mauled in a horror dog attack in Tameside on Thursday evening (May 29).
Armed police, and paramedics, along with an air ambulance, attended the incident on Baslow Road in the Haughton Green area of Denton shortly before 6pm.
The three victims were rushed to hospital from the scene to be treated for their injuries. Their condition remains unknown.
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Witnesses have now spoken out about the moment armed officers swooped on their residential street following the incident, thought to have broken out in a nearby home.
Animal units were also called out to the incident in Denton(Image: ASP)
One person told the Mirror: “There’s people covered in blood and a baby’s been taken to hospital. There were others who looked injured.
“A dog section and armed police went in with guns.” As another said: “The dog is a boxer. He attacked the one-and-a-half year old and then the owner.”
Armed officers in attendance(Image: ASP)
A third, who lives beside the cordon, added: “It happened in the flats. There were lots of police and ambulances and an air ambulance. CID are also here.”
Families gathered outside watching as emergency services worked within the cordon. A number of young children were gathered around on bikes and scooters with their parents nearby.
“It was shocking,” another resident told the M.E.N. “I didn’t know what had gone on, and then when we found did find out what had happened, it was sad.”
An air ambulance was scrambled to the scene(Image: Liz Carr – Collins)
Footage also showed the moment a dog was led away by police and put into the back of a vehicle. The GMP dog unit vehicles later left the scene, with cordons remaining in place along Baslow Road.
A spokesperson for GMP said: “We were called to Baslow Road, Denton, at around 5:50pm today (May 29) to reports several people had been attacked by a dog.
“Three people, a one-year-old child and two adults, are in hospital being treated for their injuries.”
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