By Tara Rippin • Published: 01 Jul 2020 • 15:53
THE animal, still unidentified, bit the child in the chest while she was walking with her mother.
The little girl has been admitted to the General Hospital of Alicante, while the Local Police and the Guardia Civil of San Vicente del Raspeig have opened an investigation.
The event occurred on Tuesday evening, around 8.30pm in a street in El Moralet, when the dog is said to have attacked suddenly, biting the child in the chest, ‘leaving her with serious injuries.’
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Tara Rippin is a reporter for Spain’s largest English-speaking newspaper, Euro Weekly News, and is responsible for the Costa Blanca region. She has been in journalism for more than 20 years, having worked for local newspapers in the Midlands, UK, before relocating to Spain in 1990. Since arriving, the mother-of-one has made her home on the Costa Blanca, while spending 18 months at the EWN head office in Fuengirola on the Costa del Sol. She loves being part of a community that has a wonderful expat and Spanish mix, and strives to bring the latest and most relevant news to EWN’s loyal and valued readers.
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