Witnesses describe seeing a man with blood on his clothes before another man was taken away in an ambulance
The attack took place on Rochdale Road in Bury(Image: Staff)
A man has been taken to hospital following a suspected dog attack in Bury.
Police have seized four XL bullies following the attack on Rochdale Road, Pimhole on Sunday lunchtime. A police cordon was in place close to the junction with Tinline Street.
A worker in a nearby takeaway described seeing a man with blood on clothes as emergency services arrived at the scene.
He said: “We had just opened up and we saw a few police vans and an ambulance pull up outside. Then a guy came in the shop to get two drinks.
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“He had blood on his clothes, but he said ‘Don’t worry it’s not my blood’. The police went inside a flat to check and then another guy walked in the ambulance, but he didn’t have any blood on him and he looked normal.
“There were a couple of dogs I saw the police take away.”
A Greater Manchester police spokesperson said: “At around 12.35pm this afternoon (Sunday), we were called to a suspected dog attack on Rochdale Road in Bury. Officers attended the scene and located a man in his 30s with non-life threatening/non-life changing injuries.
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“He has been taken to hospital for treatment. No arrests have been made and four suspected XL bullies have been seized by officers from the Bury District.”
Meanwhile a four-year-old boy and an 18-year-old man also suffered minor injuries in a separate dog attack in Littleborough, Rochdale on Sunday morning. A dog, understood to be an American Akita, was seized by police following the attack on Hawkins Way at about 11am.