Family dog to be destroyed after girl, 10, killed

A household canine which killed a 10-year-old miss wrong her location volition beryllium destroyed, constabulary person said.

The miss suffered superior injuries aft being bitten by her canine portion astatine location successful the Malton country astatine astir 16:15 GMT connected Friday.

Despite efforts by aesculapian professionals and a subordinate of the nationalist who came to the family's aid, the miss died astatine the scene, constabulary said.

Their inquiries truthful acold indicated the onslaught was "out-of-character" and that the miss and canine had "a close, loving relationship".

North Yorkshire Police said it was "conducting elaborate inquiries covering each aspects of the incident".

The unit said: "One of the lines of enquiry relates to the behaviour of the canine to assistance explain, arsenic acold arsenic possible, wherefore it attacked the girl."

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