Two toddlers hospitalised after dog attack in Prescot garden

Police investigations are underway after two toddlers were bitten by a dog in the rear garden of a house in Prescot yesterday (May 1).

Merseyside Police were contacted at around 4.00pm following reports that a three-year-old boy and a two-year-old boy had suffered puncture wounds and lacerations to their arms at a property in Johnson Avenue.

The children remain in hospital in a stable condition. An 18-year-old woman also suffered a minor injury to her arm. The dog, believed to be an bulldog-type breed, has been handed over to be humanely destroyed.

Enquiries into the incident remain ongoing.