Overview
- A 2-year-old girl died after being attacked by two dogo argentino dogs at a relative’s home in Córdoba city; doctors reanimated her after a cardiac arrest but she later died from massive hemorrhage during emergency surgery.
- Hours later a 2-year-old boy in Alta Gracia was fatally mauled by a visiting pitbull; police captured the dog and the owner was detained as the local prosecutor opened a homicide investigation.
- Witnesses and neighbors tried to intervene in the dogo attack and police reports say the animals escaped when a door was opened; a 34-year-old aunt was also wounded while trying to stop the dogs.
- The two deaths follow a string of at least eleven serious canine attacks in Córdoba in 2026 and come as a high-profile 2023 dogo attack trial nears sentencing, intensifying legal scrutiny of owners.
- Investigations will seek to establish negligence or criminal culpability and could affect rules on registration, muzzles, leashes and liability for large-breed dogs, while communities and hospitals contend with the human toll.