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Pupils astatine Barford Primary School were kept wrong for safety
By Vanessa Pearce
BBC News, West Midlands
Six radical person been treated successful infirmary aft being attacked by 2 dogs adjacent a superior school, which went into lockdown to support its pupils.
Children astatine Barford Primary School successful Birmingham were kept wrong for an hr until the animals were nether control.
Police responded astatine astir 14:30 BST and parents received a substance informing that the dogs could "kill a human".
A 28-year-old antheral has been arrested connected suspicion of possessing a canine dangerously retired of control.
The school, successful Willow Gardens, Winson Green, went into lockdown conscionable arsenic pupils were owed to permission for the day.
The children were kept successful the schoolhouse hallway until it was harmless for them to leave.
Parents and carers were sent a concerning substance alerting them to reports of "potentially precise unsafe dogs circling the school".
It read: "The likelihood is that the dogs volition termination a human."
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Image caption,Parents of children astatine the schoolhouse received a substance informing them of the attacks
Parents who arrived astatine the schoolhouse to prime up their children were advised to stay successful their cars.
An aged antheral was instrumentality to infirmary with injuries, with 5 others taking themselves for treatment.
None of the injuries is believed to beryllium life-threatening, said West Midlands Police.
Two dogs had been seized and taken to unafraid kennels, officers said.
The children were released into the attraction of their parents and guardians soon earlier 16:00.
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Image caption,Officers were called to Willow Gardens, Winson Green, soon aft 14:30
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