Man mauled yards from kids leaving college

A person has been severely injured after he was mauled by two dogs exterior a flat close to a main college.

Emergency companies rushed to the scene of the assault within the village of Stonnall, Staffordshire, simply as kids have been leaving St Peter’s Primary Academy.

An air ambulance, paramedics and officers, together with armed police, have been referred to as to Main Street shortly earlier than 3.15pm on Thursday.

Cops put the college into a short lived lockdown ‘for safety reasons’ to cease any pupils from leaving whereas they handled the incident.

Members of the general public tried to assist the person as he was savaged by the 2 animals and managed to comprise considered one of them.

The second canine was finally restrained contained in the proprietor’s flat and the sufferer was taken to hospital.

A 30-year-old man from the Lichfield space has been arrested on suspicion of getting dogs dangerously uncontrolled, police stated.

One native resident, a 63 year-old canine walker who didn’t wish to give her identify, stated: ‘It is just awful to think that some of the children could have witnessed it and it is all very upsetting.’

The lady, who didn’t see the assault, stated an air ambulance landed within the native park, and the centre of Stonnall was shut all the way down to visitors.

She stated: ’We are all a bit shook-up. The air ambulance landed on the park. The police got here and the centre of the village was fully closed to vehicles and pedestrians.

‘Obviously, after knowing that the two dogs had been caught, I did walk my two dogs but in the opposite direction.

‘As dog walkers here, we all know each other. When we realised that something horrific had happened we all spoke to each other and nobody knew who it was.’

Police have launched an investigation and are attempting to find out the dogs’ breeds.

A Staffordshire Police spokesman stated: ‘We are investigating after a man received serious injuries after being bitten by two dogs in Stonnall.

‘We were called just before 3.15pm on Thursday 14 September to Main Street to reports that a man had been attacked by two dogs outside a property. The man has been taken to hospital.

‘A number of people helped to try and get the dogs off the man and contained one of the dogs outside. The other was contained within the owner’s flat.

‘We prevented a number of school children leaving local primary school, St Peter’s Primary Academy, for security causes. The kids have since been allowed to go home.’

It comes simply days after an 11-year-old woman was subjected to a terrifying canine assault as she walked by Birmingham together with her sister.

Schoolgirl Ana Paun was ‘ferociously’ savaged by an American XL bully and Staffordshire bull terrier crossbreed puppy and two males who intervened have been additionally injured.

Police arrested a 60-year-old man on suspicion of possessing a canine dangerously uncontrolled after the assault.

Following the incident, Lord Hogan-Howe, talking at Westminster on Thursday, stated a nationwide amnesty ought to be held to get harmful dogs off the streets.

When he was the Merseyside chief constable again in 2007, he launched an amnesty for canine house owners following the dying of five-year-old Ellie Lawrenson, who was mauled by a banned pit bull-type canine at her grandmother’s home in St Helens on New Year’s Day.

The West Midlands assault has prompted home secretary Suella Braverman to hunt ‘urgent advice’ on whether or not American bully XL dogs ought to be added to the listing of outlawed breeds, arguing they’re a ‘clear and lethal danger’.

The mum of a four-year-old woman who was savaged by an XL Bully canine earlier this yr says the ‘dangerous’ breed ought to be banned.

But there’s concern that the transfer might not be practical as a result of American bully XL not being recognised as a breed by the Kennel Club, which may imply any ban could inadvertently outlaw other forms of dogs.

It has led to calls for for an overhaul of the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991, so it focuses ‘not on the breed but the deed’, and even for the laws to be ‘sent to the knacker’s yard’.

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