NEW ZEALAND -- A teenage girl and three adults in their 60s were attacked by a dog in South Auckland this morning, forcing a police officer to shoot it.
A police spokesman said the attack happened on Elmdon St, Mangere, at 10.30am.
"Police responded to a call that a teenage girl had been bitten and on arrival the dog was still behaving aggressively," a Counties Manukau police spokesman said.
"It had bitten a further three people, two men and one woman all aged in their 60s."
The spokesman said a police constable used a pistol from his vehicle to shoot the dog, believed to have been a pit bull cross.
A St John ambulance spokesman said they had taken three patients to Middlemore Hospital with minor injuries.
The police spokesman said they were thought to have suffered puncture wounds rather than tears.
(Aukland Now - Nov 21, 2011)
