On the evening of the 7th, a total of 12 people, including 9 elementary school students, were bitten one after another by a medium-sized dog kept in the neighborhood near two parks in Isesaki City, Gunma Prefecture, and 11 people sustained minor injuries. Did. The other person's life was not in danger, and the dog was captured, and police are investigating the situation at the time by interviewing the owner.
Shortly after 4 p.m. on the 7th, a man called the police near Seibu Chuo Park and nearby Tajiri Park in Tanakajima-cho, Isesaki City, saying it looked like a person was being bitten by a dog.
According to police, a total of 12 people, including nine elementary school students and three adults between the ages of 7 and 63, were bitten on the feet and injured.
Eleven people suffered minor injuries, and the severity of the other person's injuries is still being determined, but the injuries are not considered life-threatening.
The bite dog is a medium-sized Shikoku dog about 1 meter and 30 centimeters long that is owned by a man who lives nearby, and was later captured near the scene and is now being taken into care at an animal welfare center in the prefecture.
The scene is a park in a residential area about 3 kilometers west of Isesaki City Hall, and police are investigating the situation at the time by interviewing the dog's owner and people who were at the scene.
The junior high school students who witnessed
A 13-year-old junior high school student who witnessed a dog that appeared to have bitten a person near West Central Park said, ``The dog was biting a small dog that was being walked by a man in his 60s.The man tried to kick it and chase it away.'' "There was," he said.