This is the moment a bull terrier savages children in a playground and mauls one of them on the ground before a teacher chases it away by kicking it and beating it with her shoe.
The incident took place on the territory of school number 2 of the city of Nizhnevartovsk in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug in central Russia and was recorded by CCTV cameras.
Video Credit: CEN/@vartovsk86region
In the video, two girls can be seen playing when the white bull terrier gets through a hole in the fence and start jumping up and biting them.
The dog starts by targeting a girl in a brown coat who wisely does not run away and the dog lose interest in his target, switching his attention instead to a girl in a pink coat who dies try to run away, and becomes a target as a result.
The dog then turns and sprints towards her and when the terrier reaches her she appears to be knocked to the ground.
The dog then begins climbing on her and seemingly biting at her neck as her friend calls for help.
A group of other children come to the scene followed by a sprinting woman teacher.
The female teacher beats the dog off the girl with a shoe and the dog then sprints after the other children who its sees running away.
The bull terrier is then filmed run9ing from one kid to the next, includinbg attameptintg on several occasions to retrin toi the attack on the girl in the pink coat.
The filming ends with the girl following two boys inclimbing a ´fence to safety.
Local media report that all three victims are aged between 10 and 11. The aggressive bull terrier had managed to slip away from the flat it lives, when his owner, 43, whose name has not been reported, opened the door.
All the affected children are feeling well and have been provided with vaccination shots after the attack, according to reports.
The dog’s owner was handed an administrative fine for ‘walking a dog without a lead and muzzle’ after local police downplayed the incident saying the dog had caused no serious harm.
Netizen ‘koks’ said: “Do you think this fine is representative for what this dog did? I would have given her a much tougher punishment, only then she will start being responsible for her actions.”
And ‘dilman78’ added: “I think this dog needs to be put to sleep.”
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Story By: Anastasia Smirnova, Sub-Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Central European News
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