{"id":721073,"date":"2023-02-01T14:09:12","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T14:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=721073"},"modified":"2023-02-01T14:09:12","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T14:09:12","slug":"4-year-old-girl-killed-in-dog-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/4-year-old-girl-killed-in-dog-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Year Old Girl Killed in Dog Attack!"},"content":{"rendered":"

An event took place in Milton Keynes where a four-year-old girl has died due to an attack that took place by a dog.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Police have reported the incident recently and officers were believed to have attended a house on Broadlands in Netherfield on Tuesday at 17:00 GMT.<\/p>\n

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Thames Valley Police confirmed the girl died at the scene and the animal had been “humanely destroyed”.<\/p>\n

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A spokesman for the force described the attack, which happened at about 17:00 GMT, as a “tragic incident”. No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Neighbour Rita Matthews, 36, said she would see the girl while walking her own daughter to school.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“I know the girl. It’s so sad to hear that news,” she said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“She was always holding her mummy’s hand on the way back.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Mother-of-four Ms Matthews described the youngster as a “happy little girl, very happy”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“She would say, ‘Bye, auntie’, and I would say, ‘Bye, little girl’,” she said. “You know kids, playing around.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Another neighbour told BBC Three Counties that the girl who died was friends with his four-year-old son.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“I was in tears when I saw the news. I was shocked to hear the little one was a victim,” he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“I didn’t tell my boy what’s going on. I didn’t want him to get upset hearing that news.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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“It’s close to my door. It’s very sad.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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An event took place in Milton Keynes where a four-year-old girl has died due to an attack that took place by a dog.\u00a0 Police have reported the incident recently and officers were believed to have attended a house on Broadlands in Netherfield on Tuesday at 17:00 GMT. Thames Valley Police confirmed the girl died at…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":713756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-721073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":721075,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721073\/revisions\/721075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}