Armed police have been referred to as to a cemetery in Tameside after a girl was attacked by a canine.
Witnesses reported seeing a big police response, together with a number of firearms officers, at Hurst Cross Cemetery in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester earlier this afternoon.
It got here after a girl was attacked by a canine at about 1.25pm.
It’s thought she was bitten on the leg and was taken to hospital.
The canine was secured and armed officers stood down, with out firing their weapons.
A Greater Manchester Police spokesperson stated: ‘At round 1.25pm right now, officers responded to studies of a canine attacking a feminine in Hurst Cemetery, Prospect Road, Ashton-under-Lyne.
‘Officers attended and the canine was subsequently secured.
‘The feminine was taken to hospital with non life-threatening or altering accidents.’
Images from the scene present a ‘no dogs allowed’ signal and one other discover studying that there’s a ‘canine exclusion order’ throughout the cemetery.
The notices, which characteristic the Tameside Council emblem, say ‘no dogs allowed within the cemetery grounds’, other than information dogs.
The notices add that there’s a most penalty of £1,000.
