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Two arrests after boy, eight, bitten on head by dog thought to be XL bully

Source: PA Archive

A man and a woman have been arrested after an eight-year-old boy was seriously injured when he was bitten on the head by a dog – believed to be an XL bully.

Officers were called to Wadham Road, , just after 5.20pm on Saturday following a report that the dog had bitten a child to the head in the communal area of flats nearby.

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