Overview
- A three-year-old boy was fatally attacked by a dog while with his father in Villa La Lonja, Córdoba, on Sunday, according to local reports.
- Emergency services took the child to Clínica Vélez Sarsfield with severe bite wounds to his face and neck, and he died shortly after arrival.
- Police and judicial authorities have opened an active investigation to reconstruct how the attack occurred and to identify who owned the animal.
- Local media describe the dog as a pitbull and report it may belong to neighbors, but ownership and exact circumstances remain unconfirmed by investigators.
- The case is the second recent child fatality from a dog attack in Córdoba and has renewed scrutiny of controls for potentially dangerous dogs after a May death where an autopsy found a ruptured carotid artery.