{"id":263127,"date":"2025-07-14T02:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T02:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/263127\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T02:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T02:45:11","slug":"four-xl-bullies-seized-by-police-after-man-injured-in-suspected-dog-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/263127\/","title":{"rendered":"Four XL bullies seized by police after man injured in suspected dog attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Witnesses describe seeing a man with blood on his clothes before another man was taken away in an ambulance<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0_IMG_5745jpeg.jpg\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>The attack took place on Rochdale Road in Bury(Image: Staff)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A man has been taken to hospital following a suspected dog attack in Bury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A worker in a nearby takeaway described seeing a man with blood on clothes as emergency services arrived at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">He said: &#8220;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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Never miss a story with the MEN&#8217;s daily Catch Up newsletter &#8211; get it in your inbox by signing up <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/newsletter-preference-centre\/?view=Solus&amp;mailingListId=b8052254-66af-41f3-9dae-7bbb0e3391c6&amp;utm_source=solusarticle\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"hereLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;He had blood on his clothes, but he said &#8216;Don&#8217;t worry it&#8217;s not my blood&#8217;. The police went inside a flat to check and then another guy walked in the ambulance, but he didn&#8217;t have any blood on him and he looked normal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;There were a couple of dogs I saw the police take away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/greater-manchester-police\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Greater Manchester police<\/a> spokesperson said: &#8220;At around 12.35pm this afternoon (Sunday), we were called to a suspected dog attack on <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/rochdale\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Rochdale<\/a> Road in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/bury\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Bury<\/a>. Officers attended the scene and located a man in his 30s with non-life threatening\/non-life changing injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Join our Court and Crime WhatsApp group <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/IuEiMBO5xcCLDUGbBHsvC1\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"HERELink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Meanwhile a four-year-old boy and an 18-year-old man also <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/news\/greater-manchester-news\/boy-4-and-teenager-injured-32050846\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">suffered minor injuries in a separate dog attack<\/a> in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/littleborough\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Littleborough<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Witnesses describe seeing a man with blood on his clothes before another man was taken away in an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,1285,188,393,4884,2465,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-263127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-bury","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-manchester","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114849298804331033","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}