DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - A 3-year-old boy in the northeastern town of Las Terrenas died and his mother was seriously injured when they were attacked by three pit bull dogs, Dominican police said Wednesday.
The deadly attack took place at a villa owned by a French citizen where Patricia Alvarado, 24, worked as a maid.
Her son, Juan Antonio Garcia Alvarado, died at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Los Cubanos hospital, where he was admitted on the verge of death due to the multiple bites he suffered on his neck, face and head, according to the police communique.
The boy’s mother was bitten on the neck when she tried to prevent the animals from killing her son.
Alvarado was treated at the Los Cubanos hospital and later transported on an emergency basis to Santo Domingo’s Doctor Dario Contreras Hospital, where she remains in serious condition.
One of the three dogs was euthanized, according to a preliminary report, which did not explain why the other two animals were not put down.
Police are continuing their investigation of the incident.
(Latin American Herald Tribune - April 16, 2014)
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Dominican Republic: Lorenzo Fortunato, 53, mauled to death by two pit bulls
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC -- A 53-year-old farmworker was killed by two pit bulls that escaped from their enclosure in Villa Mella, a community in Santo Domingo Norte, Dominican police said, adding that the dogs’ owner and handler were arrested.
Lorenzo Fortunato died from multiple bite wounds, police said.
Kelvin Espejo, who owned the dogs, and Nelson Nolasco Pascual, the animals’ handler, were arrested Monday and turned over to prosecutors in Santo Domingo.
The pitbulls escaped from a ranch owned by Espejo and attacked Fortunato, a neighbor, as he and another man were clearing a nearby lot. The other man managed to get away from the dogs.
Initial indications are that Nolasco Pascual unchained the dogs, allowing them to get loose, police said. EFE
(Latin American Herald Tribune - April 20, 2010)
Lorenzo Fortunato died from multiple bite wounds, police said.
Kelvin Espejo, who owned the dogs, and Nelson Nolasco Pascual, the animals’ handler, were arrested Monday and turned over to prosecutors in Santo Domingo.
The pitbulls escaped from a ranch owned by Espejo and attacked Fortunato, a neighbor, as he and another man were clearing a nearby lot. The other man managed to get away from the dogs.
Initial indications are that Nolasco Pascual unchained the dogs, allowing them to get loose, police said. EFE
(Latin American Herald Tribune - April 20, 2010)
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