Toddler airlifted to hospital after being badly mauled by dog

A dog was taken away from the home while the child was flown to a hospital in London (Picture: Google)

A toddler has been airlifted to hospital after being viciously attacked by a dog in Faversham, Kent.

The child, who has not been identified, was taken by helicopter from a home in the Broomfield Road area.

Police were called to the address at around 2.15pm yesterday and the dog was taken away from the property.

The toddler was taken to a London hospital with a ‘number of injuries’, although none of them are thought to be life threatening, police have said.

It follows a series of dog attacks in the UK in recent months, some of which have ended with life-changing injuries or death.

Harley Chatterton, four, needed 60 stitches after being attacked by a one-year-old Jackador in Glasgow.

Doctors warned her parents she may end up having permanent scarring as a result of the May 14 attack.

That same month, three-year-old Daniel John Twigg was identified as the toddler killed by a dog outside a property in Rochdale.

In March, 17-month old Bella-Rae Birch died after being mauled by her family’s pet dog in St Helens.

Jack Lis, 10, was mauled to death by an eight-stone dog, dubbed ‘the Beast’ as he visited a friend in Caerphilly, South Wales last November.

The dog’s owners, Brandon Hayden, 19, and Amy Salter, 29, were jailed in June.

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