Staffordshire bull terrier bites 11 children at park in Britain in 45-minute attack

Hollywood actor Johnny Depp and wife Amber Heard ended in May their legal battle with Australia for illegally smuggling into the country their two Yorkshire terriers aboard their private jet. The couple avoided jail by apologising in a video for what they did.

CBC reports that the celebrity couple initially delivered an apology and scripted lines about the importance of protecting Australia’s biodiversity in a low-budget video. However, while in London promoting the movie “Alice Through the Looking Glass, “ Depp deadpanned as he said that he “would really like to apologize for not smuggling my dogs into England because it would have been a bad thing to do,” in a mocking way.

As it is, Britain has enough of troubles with its own dogs. The Telegraph reports that a Staffordshire terrier bit 11 children on Wednesday night at a park in Northumberland. The 45-minute attack led to the hospitalisation of nine kids who were playing at the park when the incident happened.

Police caught the terrier and brought it to secure kennels. On Thursday afternoon, police arrested a 37-year-old woman on suspicion of owning a dangerous dog that went out of control. According to other people in the park, the woman let the terrier off its lead and took off its muzzle.

The dog first bit her and then attacked the children at the park. After 45 minutes of what witnesses describe “like a terrorist attack,” wounded children were lying all over Northumberland. The attack only stopped when a father of one of the children tackled the animal until the police arrived.

The kids suffered various injuries on the face and legs, but none of their injuries are considered serious. Three of the victims were rushed by the North East Ambulance Service to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Newcastle, while six were driven by their relatives to a hospital in Cramlington.