A toddler climbed into an enclosure outside a Minnesota home and was mauled to death by a bulldog that also severely injured the boy’s grandmother as she tried to rescue him, officials said.
The incident occurred early in the afternoon on Jan. 11 at a home west of New York Mills, the Otter Tail County Sheriff’s Office said.
The dog involved, an American bulldog, was euthanized, the Sheriff’s Office said.
According to the Sheriff’s Office:
A 51-year-old woman called 911 and said she was driving her 3-year-old grandson to the emergency room at Perham Health Clinic for treatment of dog bite injuries.
Deputies met the woman at the hospital and learned that the boy had climbed into the outside enclosed area and was attacked.
The grandmother “sustained significant injuries while stopping the attack,” a Sheriff’s Office statement read. She was transferred to a hospital in Fargo for further treatment.
The Sheriff’s Office has yet to identify the woman or her grandson.
