DULLES, Va. (WUSA) -- Dulles Airport and Customs officials have confirmed a Customs and Border Protection K-9 in training attacked a 4-year-old girl just after 12 p.m. Thursday at Dulles International Airport.
The child was there with her mother and a younger sibling picking up a friend coming from Argentina.
Officials have not yet confirmed why the dog attacked the child, but she was bitten once and received a cut that was a half inch deep and two inches wide.
The child's grandmother tells 9NEWS NOW the dog bit the girl just under her pelvis and refused to let her go. The dog would not release her, even as the handler gave the command to release.
As her mother tried to intervene, she received numerous bites to her hand.
The dog was eventually subdued by its handler, and the girl was transported to Reston Hospital in serious condition.
9NEWS NOW has learned she has received more than 20 stitches to her mid section as a result of the attack.
That family should definitely sue the pants off of IAD and the TSA. Poor girl.
The child was there with her mother and a younger sibling picking up a friend coming from Argentina.
Officials have not yet confirmed why the dog attacked the child, but she was bitten once and received a cut that was a half inch deep and two inches wide.
The child's grandmother tells 9NEWS NOW the dog bit the girl just under her pelvis and refused to let her go. The dog would not release her, even as the handler gave the command to release.
As her mother tried to intervene, she received numerous bites to her hand.
The dog was eventually subdued by its handler, and the girl was transported to Reston Hospital in serious condition.
9NEWS NOW has learned she has received more than 20 stitches to her mid section as a result of the attack.
That family should definitely sue the pants off of IAD and the TSA. Poor girl.
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